Help me please

[Sinister 0]

I am aware that this question probably has been asked before however I can't find it so here I go I eddited a video in Adobe Primere Pro and exported it as an AVI and now it is huge. How can I compress this file so that I can upload it online with out affecting the video quality too much. any help is greatly appreciated.

Shane Murphy
www.adrenalinegeeks.com

[dragon2 2]

That avi is huge because it is uncompressed. To get it online you need to compress it, aka it will lose quality.

Depending on what you want, you can use premiere to export it as a wmf, or get the divx codec and use that (mainly useful for large video quality files). Quicktime is also an option but I can never get the sound right, and I hate realmedia, myself. Check the export options in premiere.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[Sinister 0]

thanks is the divx codec something that is an add on for primere or is it a totaly seperate standalone program. where can i get it?

Shane Murphy
www.adrenalinegeeks.com

[dragon2 2]

Separate, and google for it.

ciel bleu,
Saskia

[BigBUG 0]

Just my 2 cents.
What quality of final video are you trying to achieve?

I use Premiere to edit video, then make an DV AV non-compressed clip to store on archive DV cassette or DVD. If I want, for instance, to make a DVD, this file should be compressed - I use Canopus ProCoder for all purposes - compression for DVD, Web, VideoCD - anything I need. To compile and burn a final DVD I usually use DVDLab Pro. Premiere could be used for mpeg (DVD format) encoding itself, but I could not get satisfactory results with it.

Only problem - I am in Russia and all this software costs me very little In Europe or USA it could cost you a fortune, I think...

Hope this helps.

[DSE 5]

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That avi is huge because it is uncompressed. To get it online you need to compress it, aka it will lose quality.

Just as an aside, "DV" and "uncompressed" don't go in the same sentence. DV by its very nature is compressed.
Windows Media Video/WMV is the most common codec, Quicktime is the most dual-platform friendly, and REAL...man...they had a good thing going til they started installing a lot of weirdness. It's actually superior overall as a codec, but the player is so viral-like.
If you want to export to Windows Media, you'll get the *best* conversion by exporting straight from the Premiere timeline as a 4:2:2 file and then dropping that in the free Windows Media Encoder, but that takes a lot of time and disk space. So, export as WMV from the Premiere timeline so that you avoid multiple compressions/recompression.