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Compressed Premiere clip much bigger than uncompressed After Effects clip
I’m wondering why it is that a 4-second clip I rendered with After Effects completely losslessly is only 33 MB in size, whereas after importing the same clip into Premiere Pro and outputting in DV quality, the file is 56 MB? Both clips are exactly the same length, same content, and same aspect ratio. Both use non-square pixels.
I thought that DV footage, since it’s compressed, would be much smaller. The DV video clip looks less clean and more compressed, as you’d expect, so why is the file size so much larger?
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I don’t know what on earth I did wrong, but I have just managed to output the DV file from Premiere Pro which is much smaller than the lossless AE one, as it should be. Strangely, however, this smaller DV file looks no more compressed than the larger DV file I mentioned in my above post. I think the problem was to do with progressive scan and field order settings (which I forgot I have played around with), but I can’t recreate the problem.
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