
So, how do I compress/shrink/de-qualitise a 3GB movie file to a 100MB one? Premiere doesn't seem to offer such a function.
I'll present the film here upon a hopefully successful upload.

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Yes, but will it be readable by his target? That's a serious question that forces ancient crap to still be used quite often by production houses. If your codec is so fantastic that everyone uses it then that works great, but if it's relatively new and you need people to download support to view it, then it's not so good. He also wants to upload it to Youtube. What compressors can they support?phongn wrote:Cinepak is ancient crap, don't use it.
If you want a relatively simple program, Handbrake should do the trick.
Youtube suggests MPEG-4 with 320x340 resolution and 30fps maximum. They also suggest MP3 audio (probably something like 128kbit CBR).Covenant wrote:Yes, but will it be readable by his target? That's a serious question that forces ancient crap to still be used quite often by production houses. If your codec is so fantastic that everyone uses it then that works great, but if it's relatively new and you need people to download support to view it, then it's not so good. He also wants to upload it to Youtube. What compressors can they support?
Seconded. DivX is probably the easiest to use that's also supported by almost all computers.phongn wrote:Cinepak is ancient crap, don't use it.
Handbrake is a dvd ripper, if all he's doing is converting formats,VirtualDub is probably better.If you want a relatively simple program, Handbrake should do the trick.
You'd be surprised to see the kind of ancient, stone-age garbage these people use at times, and more importantly, the kind of ass-backwards thinking that controls the purchase of new equipment and of expanding into new formats, especially codecs.phongn wrote:And what production house still requires Cinepak?? I'd understand if they can't work with things like H.264 or MPEG-4 yet, but something like MJPEG should be almost universally supported.
Even in high school (and I graduated in 2001!) we weren't using Cinepak ... we mostly used DV or dumped to Betacam SP. There were some old MJPEG stuff laying around too but nothing worse.Covenant wrote:You'd be surprised to see the kind of ancient, stone-age garbage these people use at times, and more importantly, the kind of ass-backwards thinking that controls the purchase of new equipment and of expanding into new formats, especially codecs.
Indeo is not widely supported anymore - it doesn't come with newer versions of Windows and Ligos charges $15 for them. Intel sold it off years ago. Still, there are a number of widely-supported codecs out there that aren't quite so ancient.Regardless, if Youtube wants MPG4 compression then that's probably good to go with, as it'll satisfy most of your needs. I did mention mpeg compression, and the only reason to use cinepak is to make things easily available. Even things like the indeo codec, which should come with every intel chip, are not universally supported and so many people will quickly blame you for not doing 'it in a readable format' rather than review their own codec library and see if they even have any variety of HD or DVD era codec support.
MPEG-4, VC1 (WMV), H.264?And I'd love to hear about some new, common codecs if you want to share some knowledge.