• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Compression advice

  Posted by Bruce Gaber on August 19, 2017 at 5:07 pm

  Trying to compress some video files without much success. I used Zipit to try to compress some ~10Gb .MOV files. The “compressed” files were less than 10% smaller. Not much help at all. Any advice on procedures / apps to get some real scrunching here?

  Many thanks

  Bruce

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  Bruce Gaber replied 8 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Greg Janza

  August 19, 2017 at 5:42 pm

  With video files you’re best option is to bring them into media encoder and create H264 versions which will be a mere fraction of the original size.

  I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
  – Orson Welles
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  Brent Marginet

  August 19, 2017 at 6:46 pm

  Zipping Video files will never shrink them much and is not a good idea.

  Are you Zipping them for archival purposes, if so archive them exactly as they are.
  If you compress them to H.264’s and need them later on you will be working with degraded versions of the originals.

  \”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
  Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
  Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\”
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  Bruce Gaber

  August 20, 2017 at 12:09 am

  Dave

  These are files of the video of a performance that I am sending to the artist. When I realized how huge they were, I began looking for a way to compress them. Now, thanks to the Forum, I realize that all I needed to do is what I always do when I am moving large files for review and approval. I transcode them to H.264. Duh!

  Bruce

  Photographer / Motion Graphics Artist
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