• Cinematography

  movie file is too big

  Posted by Dadood123 on February 2, 2006 at 10:22 pm

  i took a video and edited it. added a title to it and a few cross fades, then exported it as a .mov. now the movie file is 1.3 gb!!
  how did it get so big? and how can i compress the movie into a smaller .mov file?

  Donatello replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Donatello

  February 4, 2006 at 5:30 pm

  many time “render as” QT defaults to uncompressed ( none) on NLE’s ..
  you need to set it to use the DV codec .. some NLE’s you’ll find the setting under render as – then maybe custom – video format ( pull down window then choiose Dv ntsc or DV pal …

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