Newbie needs help

IceReaperX303 · Post by **IceReaperX303** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 12:32 pm

I have episodes I download. What program would be good for compressing this? Also what good audio compressor should I use?

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 12:42 pm

This should be moved over to either general video help, or video software help.

You haven't told us what format these episodes are in. That would be helpful to know.

Oh, and your sig is too large:

IceReaperX303 · Post by **IceReaperX303** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 12:47 pm

They are in avi format I am using Premeire 6.0.

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 12:50 pm

You downloaded AVIs? Were they compressed in any way to begin with (DivX or XviD)? What resolution?

IceReaperX303 · Post by **IceReaperX303** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:16 pm

Divx usually around 580 width and 320 width not sure what height. They are good quality dvd rips no doubt. When I make music vids it always seems my files come out extremely large even when i compress with divx 5.0.2

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:25 pm

The site has a policy against using downloaded material and pirating, if that's the case here. You'll have to take it up with Phade.

Other than that, have fun.

/end

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:31 pm

"extremely large" isn't accurate enough. The range 60-90 MB should be considered average for MPEG4 (DivX or XviD) .avi compresses of normal (3-5 minute) length videos at 512+ pixels width with a reasonably hi-fi audio track.

If you're getting filesizes well above this, you might want to check your video bitrate settings (2000-3000 Kbps should be sufficient) and your audio compression. Uncompressed .wav is more space intensive than 128/44 mp3 by a factor of about 10, so this could be a major source of bloat. Read the guides or search the forum for information on the LAME mp3 encoder, most people will swear by it.

--K

IceReaperX303 · Post by **IceReaperX303** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:36 pm

Thanks. Does anyone know if I can compress audio in adobe premiere 6.0?

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 3:03 pm

Even if I could, I wouldn't. A small FREE program like the Lame encoder, coupled with BeSweet (and the BeSweet GUI) purpose-built for the task, is a load better in my mind.

Deaths_ally · Post by **Deaths_ally** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 7:39 pm

RichLather wrote:Even if I could, I wouldn't. A small FREE program like the Lame encoder, coupled with BeSweet (and the BeSweet GUI) purpose-built for the task, is a load better in my mind.

I agree.. the compresion in premire just doesn't cut it....

when i create my video's i never compress the sound in premire..