[Kenny Stein]

Hey Mike

Thanks again for your help.

It looks like the settings were already for H.264. I reduced the quality and the size and it still came out to 40 mb. Now, my boss claims that on his old website the videos were only 20 mb and they are of good quality and not too small. I just feel like somewhere I have some setting that’s throwing everything else.

I should also mention that my exports are acting funny. They immediately start at 7% and then it stops and goes slow and takes maybe 15 minutes to complete the export, even for a small file. No matter how I export (in any format) the video, that’s what’s happening. Do you know what could be causing this?

Is there a format that’s similar to quicktime that won’t lose much quality but also be a smaller file size? Such as avi compared to mov?

[Kenny Stein]

Hi Mike

Yes, I’m using yousendit to send the files to my boss. That’s what I meant by sending them online.

I have a few conversion programs (Handbrake, joboshare) that I can use to convert the files and I was converting them to flash files, but now my boss doesn’t like those either.

Is H.264 only available through the compressor or can I go directly from FCP?

I have been messing with the options and settings to just make it a smaller scale video file and that’s gotten them to near or under 100mb and still waiting to hear from the boss if he likes it.

Thanks for your help.

[Kenny Stein]

Mike,

Thank you for your response.

First off, yes, I’ve been using File>export>using quicktime conversion. Then I’m just selecting Quicktime and not messing with the settings. I probably should’ve mentioned that, yes. I also should have looked at the settings and tried to play with them to find a happy medium. What I need is a video that doesn’t lose too much quality and comes in at under 100 mb or even less preferably. The videos will play on a website and I believe will only be a on a small scale.

Before I posted here I did try using the compresser and h.264, though it didn’t change much and I am also a COMPLETE amateur on the compressor and had no idea what I was doing.

To transfer the files online, is it possible to zip or rar them to make them smaller? I compressed a file to try it out and it hardly made it any smaller at all when I zipped it. I thought the point of zip and rar was to make the smiles… well… compressed?

Thanks again,
Kenny