X2Pro file size too large

[Glenn Payne]

Yeah. That’s what I’m thinking as well. I thought it was because I had the video in the timeline still. But when I removed it the file size stayed the same.

Thanks again for trying to help! Maybe someone else will stumble upon this thread and have some advice.

[Glenn Payne]

Slight Update:

I went through the entire film and narrowed down the different roles. Ended up with 7 total. When I render out the AAf from the XML with just the roles I’ve chosen to use the AAF file barely shrinks. It goes from 5.58 to 5.45gb. ☹

Still not sure why it’s so massive. Any other ideas from any of you guys?

Thanks for any guesses.

[Scott Saracen]

Hey Glenn,
I know it has been just about a year, but wondering if you ever solved this problem? I am having the same issue. 2 minute test has yielded me a 5.57GB file. I stripped video and only slightly smaller size.
Thanks for any insight.
Scott

[Glenn Payne]

Hey Scott,

I’ve been racking my brain all day since I saw your post. I also checked with my post sound guy and I don’t think I ever found a real solution. I think we just did the best we could with a huge file. All the suggestions above were solid and should have worked, if you want to try those. It was a strange problem.

[Scott Saracen]

Thanks for your reply Glenn.
I was going over and over everything last night…quadruple checked my preferences…handles were at 2 seconds. Then my eye caught the main screen, the option “trim embedded audio”. I checked that, exported an AAF and it was 50MB…I could have kicked myself for all the time I wasted…ugh!

[Glenn Payne]

That’s great though! At least you figured it out. It basically felt like that was happening with me but for some reason it wasn’t using just the trimmed parts when I told it to. Who knows…