Compress videos without jaggies?

[slackerinabox]

A friend of mine shot some quicktime video using his digital camera... The files were pretty big -100 mb for about 1 min of video.. We edited it in premier and then outputted the files back to QT in "medium" compress- it's stil 98mb yet jaggie as hell! What gives? He wants to post them on his site so less than 10mb would be ideal.. How are movie trailers so clear and jaggie free yet so relatively small??

 

[notfred]

Use a better compression codec. Quicktime pro comes with a bunch of them, try mpeg4 or sorenson.

 

[oLLie]

What's the resolution of his video? Most movie trailers are relatively low res, I believe, so an otherwise conservative bitrate will look better.

 

[slackerinabox]

Hey,
The video is 340x260 I think...

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Hey,
The video is 340x260 I think...

320x240

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Hey,
The video is 340x260 I think...

320x240

Yeah, that sounds right

 

[speg]

I hear ya, I edited a clip the other day, making it shorter than the orginal. And yet it turned out to be have a larger filesize, doh. I gues sI need some real video editing software.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Compress with mpeg4

Also try divx and xvid