Noob to Premiere Pro 1.5 - Exporting Files are HUGE

[Coldkilla]

I have this 20 minute video I edited, I rendered it and it was over 5,000mbs! I was wondering, would anyone know how to get a video at a sufficient quality, perhaps 800x600 resolution, to a size suitable to be downloaded online? (200mb's is my ceiling), but rendering takes hours.. experimenting would take a life time.. im looking for a shortcut by coming here - maybe someone knows. If you do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

 

[Viper GTS]

800x600 is pretty high resolution, about 40% higher pixel count than DVD. It's not going to be a small file no matter what you do.

Take the render you have now & encode it using a good codec (h.264, divx, etc.). With only 200 megs to work with you're going to have to sacrifice quality, but it's doable.

Viper GTS

 

[krotchy]

video streamed online is almost alwasy in CIF resolution, AKA 320x240. If you export a CIF video at 320x240 and use a codec of some sort, it will be great for online.

 

[Zugzwang152]

it's meant to be streamed, or just downloaded? Makes a difference.

 

[Vegitto]

Use the Windows Media Player 9 codec. Not everyone knows their way around DivX/XviD/H.264.

 

[Coldkilla]

I've tried the WMP9 Codec and it seems as though the files are still excessivly large. Are there more options that need to be tweeked with besides the Codec used? I dont understand much about encoding.