problem with video size

patopsf · Post by **patopsf** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:26 pm

I took smaller clips off of a movie file (599MB) by inserting the entire file, and clipping off around the portions I wanted. I did this a few times. The entire "movie" runs for about a half hour. The new video runs a little over 4 minutes, but the size of the new shorter file is 1,038 MB.

Am I cutting the video clips wrong? It seems to me that I must be dragging more of the original movie into the new video than I would have hoped. How can I make the new video a "reasonable" size?

Thank you, Pat

troppo · Post by **troppo** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:25 am

You are probably just encoding it uncompressed. What is your encoding settings for the final movie? Try setting it to DVD (PAL or NTSC) and re-encoding.
A half hour movie at 599mb is already compressed. (Uncompressed DV would be about 6000mb)
Hope this helps.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:12 am

30 minutes of, e.g., DV is ~6.5 Gb. Uncompressed or with low-compression, it would be >16 Gb. 600 Mb means that the file is HIGHLY compressed, possibly with a WMV, XVID or DIVX format. 15 or 16 Gb/h suggests you are rendering to very low compression. What are your settings?

Troppo: there is no such thing as "uncompressed DV". DV is always compressed.