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Lifer
I made an almost 4-minute video using Premier Pro 1.5, and now I want to output a final video for viewing. This video will go up on the net, so I'm thinking of a video size of around 40 or 50 MB. I didn't think it'd be too hard, but apparently I'm doing something wrong. For some reason, I can utilize almost every function in Premier Pro (even after a 6 month hiatus), but encoding the final product baffles me.
I first tried using the default Cinepak Radius codec with default settings, but the time to complete was overly large (hours upon hours). I decided to try with an older DiVx codec I had stashed away on a CD somewhere. I installed the codec (5.0.1 I think), then encoded, am I getting crap all over the video. Major pixelation everywhere, just looks like sh!t, not useable at all. I wanted to mess around with the DiVx settings, but I have no idea what I'm doing. So I then tried using the Quicktime codec. End movie result looked fairly good, but the file size was over 150MB on a 360x240 movie. So I downloaded a free trial of the latest DiVx codec (5.2.1), and used the slowest decoding option, which supposedly gives me the best compression, smallest file size, and best picture. After it was done, the video still was all pixelated and looked like crap, just like before. And to beat it all, the file size was 952MB!!
Please, someone, help me and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'd like to get this video encoded properly and sent to whom it is going to in the next few hours. I'm looking for the vid size to be around 360x240, so I don't think I'm being too harsh in wanting a 4 minute video that size to be sub-50MB.
Thanks a lot to anyone who can shed some light on this.
I first tried using the default Cinepak Radius codec with default settings, but the time to complete was overly large (hours upon hours). I decided to try with an older DiVx codec I had stashed away on a CD somewhere. I installed the codec (5.0.1 I think), then encoded, am I getting crap all over the video. Major pixelation everywhere, just looks like sh!t, not useable at all. I wanted to mess around with the DiVx settings, but I have no idea what I'm doing. So I then tried using the Quicktime codec. End movie result looked fairly good, but the file size was over 150MB on a 360x240 movie. So I downloaded a free trial of the latest DiVx codec (5.2.1), and used the slowest decoding option, which supposedly gives me the best compression, smallest file size, and best picture. After it was done, the video still was all pixelated and looked like crap, just like before. And to beat it all, the file size was 952MB!!
Please, someone, help me and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'd like to get this video encoded properly and sent to whom it is going to in the next few hours. I'm looking for the vid size to be around 360x240, so I don't think I'm being too harsh in wanting a 4 minute video that size to be sub-50MB.
Thanks a lot to anyone who can shed some light on this.
