Converting video quality

l2urouni · Post by **l2urouni** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:26 pm

When I extract my video from adobe premiere, for some reason it won't allow me to change the quality of the video (I'm using 2.0). My file ends up being 600 mb for just a 3-5 minute video.

I'm trying to figure out how to change the quality in adobe premiere or find another program that can lower the size of the video without sacrificing the quality of the video by too much. Does anyone know of either a program that can lower the size of the extracted file or how to fix this problem on adobe?

Below is a link to the image of what the problem kind of looks like in adobe where it won't let me change the "low" or "high" of the video quality. If anything, I'd rather just get a program that can lower the size of the video.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:27 pm

export uncompressed avi out of premiere pro
it'l be big (maybe somewhere around 1-4GB), but it shouldn't have much trouble being compressed down to under 100MB
use vdubmod to encode with xvid following the section in Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> on compressing with xvid

other options are meGUI and Zarx264GUI

you'll want to export audio separately (and compress it)
you can use BeSweet for that, meGUI has a built-in audio encoder

l2urouni · Post by **l2urouni** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:01 am

thanks a lot. so if I compress the video file using vdubmod, I still need to export the audio separately?

Kariudo wrote:export uncompressed avi out of premiere pro
it'l be big (maybe somewhere around 1-4GB), but it shouldn't have much trouble being compressed down to under 100MB
use vdubmod to encode with xvid following the section in Read <a href="http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech/">ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> on compressing with xvid

other options are meGUI and Zarx264GUI

you'll want to export audio separately (and compress it)
you can use BeSweet for that, meGUI has a built-in audio encoder

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:04 am

you don't need to, but it can help out.
encoding audio separately gives you more control...and I'm not sure if vdubmod can encode audio (you'd have to use an external audio file, or be stuck with whatever audio you edited with...which is probably a large .wav)

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:23 pm

Kariudo wrote:you don't need to, but it can help out.
encoding audio separately gives you more control...and I'm not sure if vdubmod can encode audio (you'd have to use an external audio file, or be stuck with whatever audio you edited with...which is probably a large .wav)

Right click on the audio stream in Stream List, Full Processing mode, and then Compression. Proceed as usual.

Not that I would encode in VDubMod either, I prefer to do my audio encoding separately and mux it in afterward, regardless of the audio format.

lister007 · Post by **lister007** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:20 pm

if the song is not been edited.......or even if it has you can set up a frame server to virtual bub and mux the video with your .wav (or.wav export) if you DONT want seperate files......I reccomend seperate uncompressed files until your final encode though......in megui

l2urouni · Post by **l2urouni** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:42 pm

Wow, you all have been really helpful. Thanks a bunch! I'll have to play around with vdub.