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Need to make file size smaller!!!
Hi All,
I have a 257MB MPEG2 file of football plays (recruiting video) that I need to somehow cut down to no more than 20MB. Is this possible? If so what would be the best format to use using Vegas? The file must be this size so it can be emailed to a website. Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks
Dave P. -
5 Replies
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Render as wmv and H.264 (better quality)and see what you get. You can also reduce the frame size if needed.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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As Gary suggested, WMV is a good way to go. Personally, I use DIVX to encode my videos to share over the internet, but the WMV 9 codec is equivalent to DIVX in file size to video quality capability.
One reason I don’t use .wmv format is because, for me, Vegas renders .wmv files VERY slowly… like 5-10fps where it will render divx files much faster. Not sure if this is an issue with just my computer setup or what.If you’re rendering to a 720×480 frame size (or something in that size range), I’ve found that you’ll want to have bitrate set to at least probably 1.5mb/s. The latest football highlight video I made I used a bitrate of 2mb/s and the 4minute video was approx. 70 MB’s… the quality was just about right with very little artifacting/blotchiness to it.
And like Gary stated, you can use a smaller framesize and a lower bitrate to get your file as small as possible.I’d also suggest using free file hosts like http://www.yousendit.com , http://www.sendspace.com , or http://www.megaupload.com to share your 20MB file rather than emailing it.
Hope this helps.
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Gary–“H.264” what is this reffering to?
Thanks for the info guy’s I really appreciate it.
Have a great day!
Dave P.
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H.264 is the Mpeg4 codec. This is what is used for IPods and PSPs. It’s in the render choices and in Tools > Export to PSP.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Another option might be making it a quicktime file, resize to whatever you need (ex. 240X180), use the sorenson squeeze 3 option under configure in video, reduce the sound sampling rate to a minimum ( I frequently use 24-34khz) and be sure to make the audio mono. I just compressed a 132MB file down to 5.4Mbps using this method.
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