• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compression for filed to be e-mailed

  Posted by Annu Lilja on March 3, 2009 at 3:49 am

  Hi,

  I have a 10-minute HD sequence I need to compress to be small enough for e-mailing, preferably less than 100 MB. What compression type should I use?

  Thanks!

  Annu Lilja replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Zane Barker

  March 3, 2009 at 4:42 am

  [Annu Lilja] “I have a 10-minute HD sequence”
  [Annu Lilja] “small enough for e-mailing”
  [Annu Lilja] “preferably less than 100 MB”

  A 100 MB file is WAY to big for email. Most email providers will not allow you to send or receive anything larger then 10mb. Also most people will hate you for sending an attachment of 10MB because it will lock up the persons email for quite some time. With the 10mb size limit, unfortunately there is no way you are going to get a 10 minute video down to that size with any decent quality, especially not at the HD quality you want.

  There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Annu Lilja

  March 3, 2009 at 4:48 am

  Oh sorry, I wasn’t clear enough – I wasn’t going to use e-mail, but Yousendit, which allows you to send big files. And of course the file does not need to be good quality at 100 MB, just OK enough to watch.

  Thanks!
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  Michael Sacci

  March 3, 2009 at 6:32 am

  Start with some of the H.264 presets in Compressor, you will be able to a very watchable movie under the 100 MB size.
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  Alex Elkins

  March 3, 2009 at 11:02 am

  My personal choice would be the following settings:

  VIDEO:
  Encoding: h.264
  Keyframes: Automatic
  Frame Size: 580×326 (square pix)
  Data Rate: 800kbps
  Multi-Pass

  AUDIO
  AAC
  Mono
  56kbps

  Filter: Brightness -5% (I always find that h.264 tends to wash out the colours a bit, and this compensates quite well for that.

  Those settings should give you roughly 6mb per minute, so your file should end up at about 60mb.
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  Annu Lilja

  March 3, 2009 at 8:59 pm

  Thanks so much, great advice. You saved my day.

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