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!!
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.
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.