• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Compressing a 36GB .MOV into a 4GB .MOV …Impossible?

  Posted by Austin Blue on March 29, 2016 at 11:14 pm

  Hello,

  I am a little bit of a noob.

  I am trying to air some content on TV.

  The Station Specs (which my video abides to) are:

  29.97 fps
  1920×1080
  can not exceed 4GB file size
  28 Minutes of runtime

  I have never done any intense compression like this. I am a stiffler when it comes to quality and I am okay with compression but I would like the best quality.

  I first rendered down my footage in premiere under DNxHD 175 10-bit. Now i have a 40 gb file and don’t know what to do.

  Should I go back and render it into something else? or should i take my DNXHD and throw it back into premiere and render again?

  Thank you

  Jon Doughtie replied 10 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  Chris Wright

  March 30, 2016 at 12:09 am

  do they take h.264? you can select constant quality or bitrate. 30min < 4gb… . Only h.264 with variable bitrate will look anything decent at that file size. Sorry, I don’t have a work around.
  Too bad no one supports h.265 which is half the file size of h.264.
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  Austin Blue

  March 30, 2016 at 12:33 am

  Community Producers must use the following settings in your editing, transcoding, or compression software to create a digital file:

  Format: .mp4, .mov, or .wmv

  Resolution: 1920×1080

  Frame Rate: 29.97 fps

  28 minute program files must not exceed 4 gigabytes in size
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  Austin Blue

  March 30, 2016 at 1:15 am

  I am sorry I forgot to mention . The 28 minute clip was all shot on a 5d Mark 3 at 1920x1080p 23.976.

  Would just like to get the best quality under 4gb.
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  Tero Ahlfors

  March 30, 2016 at 4:08 am

  [Austin Blue] “Format: .mp4, .mov, or .wmv

  Resolution: 1920×1080

  Frame Rate: 29.97 fps

  28 minute program files must not exceed 4 gigabytes in size”

  So they do not have any hard specs so you’ll have to deal with it. Render out an H264 file from your DNxHD master. Adjust the bitrate settings in the export window and you can see a file size estimation on the lower right part of the window.
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  Austin Blue

  March 30, 2016 at 4:34 am

  Yeah i rendered out an h264 file but from the original premiere file not from the dnxhd master and its a mk4 why isnt it going to mp4 now hmm
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  Tero Ahlfors

  March 30, 2016 at 6:02 am

  What are your exact export settings? Take a screenshot.
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  Jon Doughtie

  March 30, 2016 at 1:13 pm

  We routinely use MP4 (h.264 codec) as a final deliverable for paid half-hour programs. We get satisfactory results and have a final file size of about 1.2GB.

  System:
  Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
  Win 7 64-bit
  32GB RAM
  Adobe CC 2014 (as of 7/2015)
  256GB SSD system drive
  4 internal media drives RAID 5
  Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF.

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