Easy answer, I'm sure, about saving Premiere 1.5

Jfsx88 · Post by **Jfsx88** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:14 pm

Okay well I've made a GMV about a month ago and left it unresolved. See I made the video and when I exported the first video was just how I wanted it,except it was nearly 700 MB. That wasn't cool but then I still wanted to show it off so I put it on my xbox. When I did the sound played but the video didn't. Well anyways I tried different methods of compression but when I do either A.The sound is gawd awful or B.The sound is nice but the video is way too pixelated. I still cant find out what is so wrong because I captured some video and made another GMV on WMM and that came out to be 50 MB. YET, the same video on Premiere when saved came out to be 0.98 GB! Please just give me some tips on how to save correctly to have it at least under 100 or so megs and hopefully play on my xbox. Oh and just if anyone wondered how long both those videos were they were both under 4 min.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:27 pm

it's all about video compression... read the guides here on what thats about or google for it. WMM simplifies this all as it's a simple low level program. with premiere you actually have to think about it.

Pwolf

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:08 am

And since you'll be compressing, you'll want to know precisely what an Xbox can actually handle, (being a dumbed-down computer and all). I'd assume it would play DivX just fine, but I really don't have a clue. So you'll want to find out what kind of video files it will play successfully. This will help you determine what codec and, likely, what bitrate you'll have to compress your video into. Good luck.

Jfsx88 · Post by **Jfsx88** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:51 pm

thank you both, I'm sorry to ask but perhaps either one of you tell me for standard avi compression just to get it under 150MB with sound not being dumbed down or hint at a link because I tried google and I didn't find anything, as somtimes i'm good with it, other times very bad. As for my box, it plays practically anything,mkv,ogm,wmv,avi,mpeg. It might have been the Microsoft DV format it didn't play, cant remember. Thanks!

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:13 am

Jfsx88 wrote:It might have been the Microsoft DV format it didn't play...

That would make sense, DV isn't far too common for playback.

For compressing, I would also refer you to the guides. Mainly the ones for Xvid and for MPEG. It's a little bit of reading, but well worth it. If you've already got VDub, then you could just play around with DivX compression, it's pretty simple. But Xvid will give you better results if set up properly, and MPEG is compatible with practically everything. Good luck.

Jfsx88 · Post by **Jfsx88** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:51 pm

Alrighty then. Thanks.