• Compression Techniques

  Compressing down to a certain size – Apple Compressor

  Posted by Chuck Purnell on December 9, 2015 at 4:49 am

  I need to submit some work and they are limiting work to be no larger than 300mb. One of my videos is just over 400mb and I have another one that is 1gb. I use a Youtube preset with my Matrox MX02 box when I post anything to youtube. It does an excellent job of compressing. I just need to know what I need to do to get my files smaller so I won’t go over there 300mb size limit. I am thinking I am going to have to play with the settings within the preset that I use. Just not sure which one will reduce the size of the video.

  Thanks for any advice or suggestions you may have!

  Cre8tive Minds Entertainment, LLC

  Chuck Purnell replied 10 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ivan Myles

  December 9, 2015 at 5:53 am

  File Size = Bitrate x Duration

  If you need to reduce file size from 400MB to 300MB, reduce the bitrate to 300/400 = 75% of the current rate. If the resulting quality is unsatisfactory, consider reducing the image resolution (from 1920×1080 to 1600×900, or from 1280×720 to 1024×576, for example).
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  Chuck Purnell

  December 11, 2015 at 4:37 pm

  Thanks Ivan, I will give that a shot!

  Cre8tive Minds Entertainment, LLC

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