I have two hi-def 1280x720 movie clips about 5 minutes and 1GB each (.MOV).
Is there a way to configure the output mpeg-4 files to make them reasonably high quality but not huge in size, as I need people to see fine detail, but not take an hour to download?
I am playing around with batch convert after mpeg optimization, and experimented with reducing the frame rate, frame size, and video data rate. A 20M mpeg-4 file seems much less sharp than I would like.
What I am hoping to hear is that people have already "discovered" recipes which seem to work for this.
1 Gb for 5 minutes does seem a little large.
Can you first give a little more detail regarding your video files.
From the timeline right click and select Properties, what are they?
I used Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 . AVI for my last Youtube video (300Mb for 10 minutes). (Tiger Tiger) always keep 1280 x 720. Not small but good quality.
There is a few samples using different compressions, (Flash-MP4-Avi-Mpeg2 etc) most have comments regarding size.
Mpeg4.AVI seems as good as any.
(for the Red Squirrel used 640 x 480 Flash 1 minute at 10 Mb)
Use Make Movie Templates Manager to create a template. Choose Avi with MPEG4 compression. Use the User Defined option to set the frame size.
Microsoft AVI files
24 bits, 1280 x 720, 25 fps
Frame-based
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1
PCM, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo
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Thanks for your tip on using the template manager!
Even though the manager language is Greek to me, I was able to create mpeg-4 videos which are a 20-1 size reduction. I have done side by side comparisons of the before and after, and it is not obvious to me that there is a loss of quality.
That seems like magic - am I missing something or do these compression routines just work really really well?
I own a Canon 7D, hence recognising the video properties.
Unfortunately there are hundreds of different types of video using different properties.
So a QuickTime mov file can be made up of many different elements.
Canon use AVC H264.Mov, Video Studio does not recognise this, try to create a template you cannot choose H264 as a QuickTime compressor?.
Your only option is to re-code/ render the video to another format.
However you can normally edit the video first. Then render to your output choice.
What you choose depends on what you intend to make.
A video file the internet (youTube)
A standard DVD
A Avchd DVD
A Bluray DVD
So Dogbrain, what are you intending to make?
For the internet I would use either Mov or Avi both seem to create good video.
I try to keep as near to the original properties as VS will allow.
