Need Codec Help

Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue · Post by **Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:12 am

I'm having trouble with a new video I'm making. Each time that I export the timeline in Adobe Premiere, the resulting video is bigger than what I think anyone would be willing to download (Over 150 MB). And I've been trying all the codecs and combinations that I have on hand and the results have been the same. Does anyone know of any codec that can keep the quality up but bring the final file size down beneath 80 MB. Please let me know, because this video is something that I think everyone will love.

Especially fans of Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:17 am

divx, xvid, h264, uhh... other stuff...

there is a section in the guides that shows you how to convert your video from premiere to a small ditrobution copy.

Pwolf

Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue · Post by **Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:25 am

Pwolf wrote:divx, xvid, h264, uhh... other stuff...

there is a section in the guides that shows you how to convert your video from premiere to a small ditrobution copy.

Pwolf

Unfortunately I tried DivX 5.1 and that really sent the size of the file skyrocketing up to at least 1 GB.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:04 am

there is a step by step guide for xvid in the main A/V guide on this site. go take a look at that.

Pwolf

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:04 am

Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue wrote:Unfortunately I tried DivX 5.1 and that really sent the size of the file skyrocketing up to at least 1 GB.

Except your AMV is 25 min long, that can't be true. With highest bitrate and uncompressed audio DivX has 40MB/min. With compressed audio and a good bitrate you can cut it to a third. So check if you really use DivX for compression. 1GB for a AMV sounds more like you have exported to DV-AVI.

CHAMELEON_D_H · Post by **CHAMELEON_D_H** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:10 am

If you wan to give h.264 a try go to http://www.doom9.org/ > Guides > MPEG-4 (DivX / XviD/ NeroDigital / x264) > x264

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:09 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:
Johan Peacecraft Rodrigue wrote:Unfortunately I tried DivX 5.1 and that really sent the size of the file skyrocketing up to at least 1 GB.
Except your AMV is 25 min long, that can't be true. With highest bitrate and uncompressed audio DivX has 40MB/min. With compressed audio and a good bitrate you can cut it to a third. So check if you really use DivX for compression. 1GB for a AMV sounds more like you have exported to DV-AVI.

25min long? where did he say that?

Pwolf

sysKin · Post by **sysKin** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:01 pm

Pwolf wrote: 25min long? where did he say that?

/s/except/unless ?

@Johan: do what the guides say, and do that precisely, and you'll get excellent result. They're really good you know