ronyap wrote:well, I encoded it in lossless OUT of vegas, which came out with like a 8GB file. That file I then put into VD and encoded with xVid and audio Mp3. I cant have encoded it in lossless again, otherwise it would be definitely more than 150MB. Also, my video is only 4 mins long....hmmm
The fact that it's HD probably has something to do with it. If left uncompressed, each 1280x720 frame should take 2.67 times the space of a 720x480 frame (if I've done my math correctly). So if you encoded the file at a non-HD resolution, you might get a file more like 60 MB... theoretically.
You can always force XviD to use a lower bitrate (or lower target bitrate if you're doing a VBR mode). The encoder should have a bitrate calculator that gives you the bitrate you'd need for a given file size.




