Need the smallest file possible for exporting

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Forrest McBride] “They want the files to be around 30mb, is this possible without losing a lot of quality?
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You can set the bitrate so that the file will be under 30 megs. That will probably look bad because it’s not a lot of data for a 2 minute video.

[Michael Krueger]

Set the video target bitrate to 2 Mbit, video maximum to 3 Mbit and don´t forget to also lower the audio bitrate to 96 kbit.
Depending on the source material (movement, noise, lighting) you will lose a lot of quality but there’s no way around it when size matters.

[Jeff Pulera]

It is true that the only way to make a file smaller is to lower the bitrate. However, using a smaller frame size will get you more quality at that lower bitrate, since there is less video to compress.

So for instance, at a given (low) bitrate, a 720p video should in theory look better than a 1080p video at that same bitrate, since far less pixels needed to be compressed. The question is then, how will the video be used/viewed? 720p is still HD video and would seem to be a better choice in this situation. Or how about 360p, which is 640×360?

Not knowing the content of the video or intended viewing methods, hard to say, but if for instance this is a talking head video, 360p could look just fine!

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Chris Wright]

If you choose aac audio, you can go 64kbps that will sound like 128.
Half your resolution.
Also framerate can be lowered with optical flow.
Do a heavy denoise first before compression.

[Veronika Bolotina]

What if I am choosing 128k, but in the end it always renders out with a bit fewer kbps. Like 126k.

What do I have to do to get the exact 128k?

Thank you