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Any obvious reason my file sizes vary ‘so’ much?
Hello CC!
I’m building videos now on a daily basis for a very finicky system that will only accept Animation codec .mov’s AND they need to be under 500 mb.. ugh…
So I cut them down as short as I can without the loop looking ‘completely’ ridiculous, set the quality to 15% and that gets me about 350 mb files when its cooperating.
All these comps are the exact same size, and aside from some images being swapped they are all exactly the same. I’ve noticed these files are always coming out at vastly different sizes, anything from 350mb to 700mb. It burned me yesterday when one of them choked the system up.
Today I did a test, I took two identical comps and exported them out, the first one was about 450mb. The second was 628mb. I deleted it and did the same render two more times, and each time it came out to the same size: 628mb.
This tells me their must be a method to this supposed madness. Can anyone give any insight on this? Or some animation codec tips for smaller sizes?
Thanks!
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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…. a frame of black takes a lot less space than a photo of flowers which has more info – same way if one design has large areas of flat colour it takes less space.
This could be the answer….
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definitely does! thanks for the info! very interesting..
for more backstory on why animation and why under 500mb: I work at a news station, we use a system called Camio which is web portal based. I drop a video into this system and its categorized so the news producers can get to it. The video is pushed to a server onsite which pushes the video across the newsroom. Its an older system hence the animation codec.
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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Didn’t like that either. It plays, but is super choppy, definitely a smaller file size but no luck :-/ thanks for the suggestions.
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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you understand me perfectly!! and this is of course all my fault. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this system, it CAN’T be the system’s fault… A system still reliant on a version of JAVA so old Internet Exploder even warns me over and over again not to use it. Oy Vey.
Charles Ferran
845-699-5270
http://www.charlesferran.com“Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with the poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows no victory or defeat.”
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