The111 1 #1 April 15, 2005 Ok, I don't even jump cameras yet but I'm teaching myself how to use Pinnacle, because I'm trying to take a ~30sec clip out of a long skydiving DVD I have that was made by a friend, and turn it into a smallish AVI file. I could ask this on a video editing forum I guess, but DZ.com is my home. I have been toying with the variables and trying to keep the size down while keeping the quality as high as possible. I've had limited success, but I still feel my file's a bit too big. Here's what I've done. Used Virtual Dub Mod to extract my 30 second clip from the VOB file to an 800MB (!!!) MPG file. Opened the MPG file in Pinnacle, and encoded as a DivX, 720x480, 30 fps, 550 kbps bitrate, de-interlace source, audio by Pinnacle MP3 encoder @ 112kbps/48kHz. The AVI file is about 4MB and looks and sounds decent, but I'm still a little disappointed at the size. There has been some discussion in the WS forum about encoding lately, and a 2 minute file that was posted was only 4MB and looked as good as mine, so by that logic, mine should be only like 1 MB, which means it's about 4x too big. Any ideas?www.WingsuitPhotos.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mccordia 74 #2 April 15, 2005 QuoteUsed Virtual Dub Mod to extract my 30 second clip from the VOB file to an 800MB (!!!) MPG file. When saving it via Virtual Dub, in the compression roll-out, choose a compression for both video and audio (put it on 'full processing mode for the audio'). Divx for video and Divx/mp3 for the audio probably work best. And then save the file. It wil be waaay smaller then the 800 MB you ended up with. Those sizes happen easely when you are saving uncompressed video. In terms of getting good sizes...try using Windows Media Cleaner, or some of the 'wizards' in Adobe Premiere's Media Encoder. Getting good clean files in variable formats and sizes is as easy as selecting a template and rendering/saving.JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
