Guest JohnUlmer Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I created a parody trailer to get a handle of Adobe Premiere yesterday, and just finished now and converted it to Quicktime (.mov format)...and it turned out to be a whopping 3.57 GB! It's only about three minutes long -- I'm wondering if there's a way of compressing the video file when exporting so that it's only a few MB rather than GB?I know Quicktime files on the Internet are typically only about five megs and this thing is almost four gigs. What did I do wrong? Anyone here know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I created a parody trailer to get a handle of Adobe Premiere yesterday, and just finished now and converted it to Quicktime (.mov format)...and it turned out to be a whopping 3.57 GB! It's only about three minutes long -- I'm wondering if there's a way of compressing the video file when exporting so that it's only a few MB rather than GB?I know Quicktime files on the Internet are typically only about five megs and this thing is almost four gigs. What did I do wrong? Anyone here know?I don't use Premiere since i got my mac, but there should be some options when when converting to quicktime.R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santana Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I created a parody trailer to get a handle of Adobe Premiere yesterday, and just finished now and converted it to Quicktime (.mov format)...and it turned out to be a whopping 3.57 GB! It's only about three minutes long -- I'm wondering if there's a way of compressing the video file when exporting so that it's only a few MB rather than GB?I know Quicktime files on the Internet are typically only about five megs and this thing is almost four gigs. What did I do wrong? Anyone here know?Make sure you correctly set the codec. Quicktime movies can be done as MPEG-4, MPEG2, .mov, H.264. Also, make sure you use an appropriate resolution. Using a smaller resolution will cut down the file size. I don't know if it is the same in Premier, but when you use Quicktime to create a movie, you are given the option to make a dedicated movie file, or a reference file. The dedicated movie file cuts and joins the clips you used into 1 movie file. A reference file retains all the clips you used, and refers the Quicktime player to those clips, resulting in a much larger file size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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