file size.

[mikeh]

One of the managers here wants to be able to email out our demo reel. Problem is making it an emailable size. The demo reel is less than 2 minutes and even at 720 x 480 it comes in large unless I take it down to a very low quality. Any suggestions on compression. I'm using Premiere pro CC to compress it.
mh

[beestee]

Using a Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or corporate ftp link would make sense for this since the email itself would be light and quick. Embedding the video within the email you would probably be best served by using a streaming service such as Vimeo, YouTube, or perhaps even your own corporate website and then you have the issue of somebody viewing it from a poor connection and being left with a poor first impression on account of compression or time required to buffer.

These would be an interesting alternative:
http://gigs2gousb.com/

[mikeh]

all those make sense but not to the manager who wants the delivery via email. No links, no ftp, no flash drive...nothing. Just an email attachment. His experience is that anything that requires more effort than that on the part of the client will be ignored.
mh

[Neilg]

Anything that is small enough to be emailable will look like shit and also be ignored. just use vimeo or youtube.

In my email, if i get a youtube link i click on it an it plays. in email i get a file, i click on it, wait for google to virus scan it, it tells me there's no preview, then i have to download it and save it, then navigate to it and click on it again. that manager is mental if he thinks that's easier. I am much less likely to download an .mp4 in an email than I am to watch a vimeo link.

there's also people with 2mb limits, 5mb limits, 10mb, 25mb for attachments. what works for some wont work for all. and people generally dont like getting massive attachments out of the blue to clog up their inbox.

[3LP]

Plus, it depends on the operating system and the codec installed on the other end. You never know where or on what it will be opened.
If it's windows, any mov file will be risky as qt might not be installed.
If it's a mac, wmv will suck.
Etc etc

Site as youtube and vimeo are really the best way to get it working everywhere, beside all the other obvious explanations that have been reported already.

[artmaknev]

I have a gift for your manager:


just use youtube

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Fire manager.

[mikeh]

ha ha . Thanks for all the advice and opinions about the manager. I can't comment on the manager because 3/4 of the people I work with fit his category.
mh

[YoyoBoy]

For some reason, Quicktime is MUCH better at exporting H264 than Adobe is, so I always render out to MOV with lossless PNG compression, then export from Quicktime to an MOV with H264 compression. Pain in the ass, but it works well.

[3LP]

For some reason, Quicktime is MUCH better at exporting H264 than Adobe is, so I always render out to MOV with lossless PNG compression, then export from Quicktime to an MOV with H264 compression. Pain in the ass, but it works well.

Yep I second that, I use QT Anim in staid for the temp file though, but it's the exact same process...

Stan

[Syclone1]

Ive been using https://handbrake.fr/ lately and it has been working surprisingly well and can make files that look great that you can email as well. Best part is its open source

[YoyoBoy]

Hmm... in my first testing with Handbreak, it makes a file twice the size of what Quicktime spits out. But the settings may not be analogous.

[Syclone1]

Hmm... in my first testing with Handbreak, it makes a file twice the size of what Quicktime spits out. But the settings may not be analogous.

Yes I found that too when I first started playing with it but have gotten more used to the settings and can really compress some files down quite a bit and with little noticeably change in quality.