• Adobe Premiere Pro

  large video files

  Posted by Paul Turner on August 7, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  i am using premier 1.5 and have a time line of about an hour and a half of video, which captured as an avi is about 10 gigs, how can i get it smaller to fit on a dvd? with out losing much quality…thanks

  Steven L. gotz replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steven L. gotz

  August 8, 2008 at 12:26 am

  Ninety minutes of DV AVI should be more like 18GB. In any case, DV AVI does not play on a DVD, MPEG video does. And exporting to MPEG2-DVD is the way to get a smaller file that fits on a DVD.

  If you are using Encore, just export to a DV AVI and let Encore transcode it to just small enough to fit. In fact, most DVD authoring programs can probably do that for you.

  Or, with practice, you can get it to under 4.3 GB (leaves room for overhead) by exporting to MPEG2-DVD from Premiere Pro using a 2 pass VBR using a target of about 6 with a max of 8 and a minimum of 4.

  Steven

  
  https://www.stevengotz.com

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