compressing DV footage for the web...

[mountainman 0]

Hey folks. I am wondering what you have your Adobe Premiere 6 settings at so that you can compress/encode the DV footage to smaller QuickTime format. I would love to do it, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I keep making it, but it takes an hour and is like 500MB or so.
Please, if you can make the time, give me a pretty good instruction list. Would be good for future inquiries too.
Thanks!! (You can see the video I did make HERE. The video is in WMP format, 2 minutes, and like 9.x MB. Too big.
Thanks!
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[cameramonkey 0]

choose export, and set the video settings to what you want (size, compression, file type, etc)

[mountainman 0]

hey CameraMonkey......here is what I did first: File-->Export timeline-->Movie-->
Then, you get to the part where you choose settings and so forth. These are the settings I'm not sure how to use (since I don't know what they all mean). I am wondering how you would set them up to give back the best quality without making the file too big. The movie, video, sound, etc parts are what I'm talking about.
Thanks!
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[quade 3]

Considering the length of the video and the screen size of the video, 9.3 meg ain't too bad.
If it were me, to make it more accessable, I might consider cutting down a lot of the prep stuff at the top of the video and just web-publish the highlights.
quade
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[mountainman 0]

Hey Quade...you are correct. I forgot that it was 3 some minutes long. That isn't too terribley bad. I guess I really would like it in QuickTime format eventually, but I can't those files very small (as in under 200MB). I just dont know what settings to use in Premiere.
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[turtlespeed 212]

I have done some searching - i cannot seem to find where yo get the instructions for turning a video into Windows Media.

I downloaded he manager and the codecs but i need to understand the process.

Any help would be appreciated.

I have an eight min. video that I want to put on Skydivingmovies.com, but I'm not sure how.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[Chrisky 0]

Go to videohelp.com or doom9.org.
All i know about video compression is from links\guides on these sites. If you want decent quicktimes, use sorenson 3 as compressor, then set the keyframes and datarate as high(keyframes)/low(datarate) as possible for your desired quality. QT sound compressors suck thought, they don't make a big difference (to my ears)...
Big helper: Crop/half size video.

The mind is like a parachute - it only works once it's open.
From the edge you just see more.
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[docjohn 0]

The quickest way to create a WMV file. Premiere can do it much faster than creating Quicktime MOV files (at least on my system).

Export Timeline>Advanced Windows Media>Video for broadband NTSC (256 Kbps)

Plus you can select a higher Kbps value if you want a higher quality (but larger) file.

Doc
http://www.manifestmaster.com/video

[turtlespeed 212]

Thanks - I just finished(sunday) getting everything set up at the DZ for broadband, so now I can DL the video strait from there. Maybe if the weather is bad tomorrow, I'll have time to fix it a little and try that.

Thanks.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun