Reducing video file size

[John Cuevas]

You don’t say what codecs you can use, but if I’m uploading something to the web, and I want good quality and size I’ll render to an H.264.

Usually looks great and has small file sizes. Render a lossless codec like animation and then open media encoder and find a H.264 preset.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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[Michael Szalapski]

I’m with John. Don’t get rid of your large file, use it in the Adobe Media Encoder to make your compressed h.264 file.

You don’t want to use AE to render a compressed file for two reasons:

1. You will probably need to try several different settings in the delicate balance between quality and file size and you don’t want to have to render your AE comp eveyr single time.

2. AE can’t do multipass encoding. Multipass encoding gets you better-looking video at smaller file sizes.

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[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

I second the guys before me- Encoder is the way to go. You can use the f4v, flv or H264 presets. Use variable bit rate and 2 pass. In the end you should be able to get a decent size file. Be aware that sometimes Encoder does not refresh in showing you the estimated final size, so your compressed file may turn out to be smaller that estimated.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Carr Lockwood]

i know its to late now but i also had to do this recently and i exported mine from after effects using H.64 and what should have been like a 3 GB video file was only about 7 mb