[Francis Vila]

Hi Simon,

I have a 13 MB file in .wmv format and I tried to follow your advice by outputting in .mov with premiere. The movie is 10 mn long. I applied a chromakey filter in premiere, selected 22k compressed audio, mono, the output file size is 1 GB!!
Windows Movie maker has an option that lets you adjust the final file size, in my case up from 7 MB. That really suits someone like me with no knowledge of video, but the list of effects in WMM is limited and doesn’t include chromakey.

Is there any way that premiere or other software packages might be capable of outputting small movie files (I have a trial version of Premiere that expires this weekend) ? If WMM can do it, why can’t the others?

My goal is to get a white background for a stamp-sized video to follow a screencam presentation. I am starting to think that, rather than try to edit the film using software, I might do better to film with a background as white as possible and make do with that…

Any suggestions?

Francis