Exporting an Entire Movie?

[Gareth Williams]

Thanks Jeff. I have exported a 5 minute section with “Format – H.264” and “Preset – PAL DV” and it’s file size is 131.4Mb, that’s not too bad for 5 minutes, that would make a whole 75 minute movie roughly 1.97GB. I think that should be alright.

This is a massive improvement on the default export settings and it looks and sounds fine. 75 minutes with these settings 1.97BG is a massive improvement on 16GB with the last ones I used. It took 2.40 to export which would mean the whole 75 minute film should take 40 minutes to export. That’s not too bad.

Like you said, the YouTube preset (480p) is coming out much bigger, more than double the size so I think I’ll go with the PAL DV preset and if I want to get it down even further I’ll try halving the screen size to 360×288 putting the audio sample rate down from 48kHz to 32 or 16 and maybe dropping the frame rate down to 12 from 25.

5 Minutes: H.264 – PAL DV =131.4Mb 75 Minutes =1971Mb
5 Minutes: H.264 – YouTube 480p SD=290Mb 75 Minutes =4350Mb

YouTube 480p SD preset is much bigger, more than double! Maybe it’s quicker to upload (to YouTube) with that preset, I don’t know, but it’s a no brainer for me to use the PAL DV preset, especially for my own website. Thanks again for your help.

[Jeff Pulera]

I would recommend against lowering the video resolution or audio quality – most online content these days is HD. Your content is SD, already a much lower quality to begin with, don’t make it worse ????

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Gareth Williams]

Sounds like good advice! Thanks again 🙂