• Compression Techniques

  compressing HD video

  Posted by Kyle Adams on May 2, 2012 at 3:54 pm

  Hi guys,

  Please forgive me if this has already been dealt with, but I could not find it searching in the forums.

  I have 1280×1020 mp4 files that I am trying to upload to Vimeo. Before I upload them I want to return them to 16×9 aspect ratio. So I am trying to find a setting in Compressor that will output a 1280×720 mp4 that maintains the HD quality but compresses the file at least a little bit.

  I’ve used the HDV 720p50 setting, at it corrects the aspect ratio, but it takes a .mp4 file that is 154 MB and outputs a .mov file that is 1.38 GB.

  I’ve used the “H.264 for Apple TV” setting but that re-sized the file to 960 x 540.

  If anyone knows how to find the correct setting, or could point out where I am making a mistake I could really use some help.

  Setup:
  Mac OS X 10.5.8
  Compressor 3.0.5

  thanks,
  KJ

  Kyle Adams replied 14 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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