I'd like to include a short clip of movie with sound and attach it to an email as an attachment, keeping it under 500kB, say. Can I export such a clip from under the work bar in Premiere 6.5? If so, can you please point me at the "file, export timeline, movie" settings?
Newer camcorders are able to film in such a compressed mode onto Mini DV tape - what settings do they use?
tom.
Tom
I think it's more usual that cameras record such footage to memory cards, I maybe wrong but that's what my panasonic 350 does. It uses mpeg4 but I'd have a look at the latest windows encoder I've seen some excllent wmv files, I'm affraid I've not used it my self, I only use mpeg1 at work, that's all the clients will accept.
have a section of wmv converted from a vhs master of a tv performance from a local group
http://www.avtech.demon.co.uk/download/keeba.wmv
it's 2:45 minutes long and is 2.03 meg , and if i drop the quality anymore it wouldn't be worth using.
Impressive for such a small file.
Quality was fine for watching on my broadband connected PC
Did you use Premier and if so what output settings did you use.
Brian
Tom - I think to even stand a chance of getting those sorts of file sizes then I would suggest using export to cleaner and going down the route of WMV rather than AVI.
I can't give any recommendations for compression because I don't know what sort of footage you have, but at least a short clip means not much time required for multiple experiments!
HTH
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quote:Originally posted by BrianR:
Impressive for such a small file.
Quality was fine for watching on my broadband connected PC
Did you use Premier and if so what output settings did you use.
Brian
i used microsoft movie maker to do this , ages ago.
320x240
audio 103 kbps , 16 bit , mono
video 80 kbps,24bit
i will look again at premiere and see what options are there , but we did it using movie maker cos we needed to do it fast ( the program was going out the next night/morning at 2.00am ) and we wanted the bands fans to get a sneek pre-view.
Using Premiere 6.5, possibly the best option is to use Advanced Windows Media under the file/export timeline options.
WMV seems to be rather more forgiving on choice of file size than MPEG. WMV 7 may be more portable than later versions.
A combination of low data rate (for both audio and video) and reduced frame size should allow you to fit something usable in a fairly small file.
Many thanks to you all for your time and knowledge. I shall experiment and report back.
Hi there,
I did this very thing a little while ago and experimented with various settings and methods.
I found that the best picture quality and smallest file size was gained by exporting clip as MS AVI from the Prem timeline. I then imported this clip into Windows Movie maker and exported as clip for e-mail attachment.
It sounds a bit long winded but even when using the advanced Win Media export in prem 6, the results were not as good.
Don't know if the version with Prem 6.5 is any better.
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2000+ Athlon XP, MSI KT3V Motherboard, 728Mb DDR Ram, 10gb Boot & 80Gb video drives, Sony DRU500 DVD/RW.
Win XP Pro, Premiere 6.5, Scenalyzer Live, OHCI Firewire.
OK, the system works, but it's not without its difficulties. I exported from Premiere 6.5 as file, export clip, AWM but kept being told that the clip had to have an audio track associated with it. Needless to say it did have, but Premiere was having none of that.
If I go to file, export timeline, all is well, though there's no provision for exporting only the work area, so it means opening a new Premiere project and loading it with the clip you want to export.
Then comes the aspect ratio problem where exported clips need to be resized to look correct on a PC monitor, so I used the camera view filter to correct for that.
Then I was offered multiple choices as to file sizes vs A/V quality and depending on the length of clip and for a 215mB package I could get a pretty reasonable movie lasting 15 seconds or so.
To make the MPEG losses more acceptable I applied a levels tweak and a sharpness boost to the original footage and this really is worth while.
Thanks again for all your help. It makes me realise that there's a huge bucket of stuff waiting to be opened on this PC of mine, yet finding the time to search and experiment is difficult.
tom.