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Exporting videos
I have a video ready for export. It’s about 2GB but when I export it, the file becomes almost 180GB. What am I doing wrong and how to do I correct it so they export closer to the original size?
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3 Replies
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What kind of video is it? Where did you get it? From a camera or the Internet?
What is the purpose of exporting it? For DVD, for playback on a PC?
How long is the clip? 10 Minutes? Longer?
Steven
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It’s a wedding video that was sent to me through the internet as an AVI file. I had to reconvert the file to AVI but with pcm_s16le audio codec because mp3 codec didn’t work. I kept the file mpeg4 video codec. All I had to do was a few adjustments to the video. Mainly color correction. I want to keep it original for PC playback but later I plan to make a DVD. The video is about an hour long.
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MPEG4 is generally a highly compressed video format designed to be viewed, not edited. Premiere Pro, therefore, does not support editing MPEG4 files.
The reason the file was so small is that it is probably spatially as well as temporally compressed. Just for reference, a MiniDV camera uses approximately 12GB per hour of video.
I understand what you want to do, but using the Internet for these files is causing you pain you would not have if you had the original material instead of highly processed clips.
Sorry.
Steven
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