mp4 video with unusually small bitrate and framerate

[kittysoman2013]

I've been assigned an edit to a video provided by my client.

Its basically some kind of screencap of a webinar or something. The video is a series of powerpoint slides and then there are several voices commenting, chatting via phone with each other, talking about the content of the slides.

Its an hour and half long.

Its an mp4, 1920x1080, and the file size is only 135mb! For an hour and half!

I looked at the video's properties. The total bitrate is only 203kbps and the frame rate is only 7 frames a second. That probably explains much of it, the audio is mono and the audio sample rate is only 16khz and the bitrate is only 64kpbs.

I mademy edits in CorelVideoStudio but I cant get anywhere near these low numbers when exporting. I have a good quality final mp4, but of course its over 2 gigs in size.

Anybody have any ideas on a utility or small program I could look at, that is capable of exporting videos with extremely small file sizes? I've tried Wondershare Filmore but nope. 7 frames a second and 203kbps bitrate are out of the question.

[Ken Berry]

Have you ticked the box beside "Show Message when inserting first clip in timeline"? If so, when you inserted the video, did you get a message asking if you wanted the Project Properties to match those of the video? And if you did, then in Share you could select "Same as Project Settings". If you didn't get a message and the video is the first (or only) thing in the timeline, then you could also choose "Same As First Video Clip"...

These should -- at least in theory -- match the bitrate and frame rate, though with those very low figures, I am not so sure...