Quicktime Movie File - help required please

[shelsby]

Hi, wondering if anyone could help on this topic please.

I'm trying to create a short animation (3 1/2 mins) - with the final format being Quicktime.

I've rendered the frames out as Tiffs and used Premier to do the final edit - normally I would export as .wmv or mpg but this time Quicktime is required.

I exported the final movie out of Premier at 720x576 (pal res) and used the H.264 codec - here's the question....

The file size for the created movie is 670 Mb!! The quality is fantastic - but the file size seems incredibly large - is this normal??

I've seen various showreels from fellow forum members, ie Tim Jones, Richard Rosenman etc and their reels / animations seem to very high in visual quality but relativley low in final file size.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here?

Any help / advice would be much appreciated as this is driving me nuts!!

Thanks in advance

Steve

[Dynedain]

Instead of Premiere, use Quicktime Pro to stitch the final tiff or targa sequence into a .mov

The H.264 codec is good, but you need to play with the bitrate settings to get the final file size smaller.

[Seraph135]

Dynedain's suggestion of using Quicktime Pro is probably the best way that I know of to get high quality QT movies with small file sizes. For my reel I didn't do that though.

I wrote mine out of premiere using Sorenson 3. Set the quality bar slider to 65%, Uncheck both of the data rate checkboxes and set keyframes to 120 frames. You can also compress the audio with IMA 4:1 and lower the sample rate to 32000Hz.

This gives good results, but I'm sure someone around here knows this stuff better than I do and can make some better recommendations.

Tim J

[mmikee]

I have had good results with the mpeg4 codec and quicktime. The last
time I loaded final frames into ram player, and I used the mpeg 4
codec. The quality was very nice and the file size was 32 mb for 20
seconds.

[shelsby]

thanks very much for your replies guys - i'll give those options a try and see how i get on

cheers

steve