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Exporting movie produces a massive file.
Hello
I’ve recently edited a 12 minute short film originating on DVCAM.
I exported the film – uncompressed – and discovered my final film was a whopping 22 gigabytes in size.
My question is this – I understand that I possibly shouldn’t export it uncompressed as DVCAM is a compressed format. Can anybody advise me what type of codec I should employ when exporting the film that will reduce the file size but maintain same video quality.
Any help on this matter would be very much appreciated.
Liam. -
4 Replies
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It would help if you told people what you intend to do with the file, put it on tape, DVD, internet, etc
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Well to maintain to same quality is always relative. Some will notice DV compression, yet most people won’t.
An option that will reduce the file size somewhat, yet keep it to lossless format comparable to AVI uncompressed is the Quicktime animation setting at 100% quality. But as you already found out, true uncompressed SD video, which you’ll probably want if you want to reuse the file for further edits or composition, will cost you an average 1GB/minute + on average.
Vince
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For all practical purposes, since you have DV in, then DV out will be no worse. The only reason for uncompressed might be if you plan to process this video through something else downstream like combustion. Since DVD mpeg is way worse quality wise than DV, exporting as an intermediary to DV will not make things worse. But if you are going to DVD anyway, why not just export in MPEG2 from the timeline?
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One a side note, be careful about exporting to DV if you have added titles, motion graphics, or any kind of effect, as this will force a recompression of your timeline. Basically, pretty much anything else than straight cuts.
Vince
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