Hi,
I have a video clip which is about 30 seconds long and is like 750MB uncompressed. How should I best go about compressing it?
I have After Effects and Sony Vegas Pro 10 but I can't figure out the right settings to make the quality half decent - either the video is crappy or the audio goes out of sync randomly and stuff...
Could anyone help?
Thanks :buddy:
There's no presets for youtube? Otherwise for video H.264 and AAC for audio. Just play around abit with the bitrate sliders to get a suitable size but don't put too absurdly low etc.
Just have to set custom bitrates, however it depends on if the movie's got moving stuff or is pure text.
There's tons of tutorials on the web about getting just the right size:quality ratio.
I usually used a 5.5Mbps video bitrate and 192Kbps audio, rendered as the best quality, with a good end result at a decent size.
I usualy got into vegas choose WMV and 720p preset and it turns out nice and small with quality.
Aye, I always put my clips into Vegas and render as WMV 6mbps 720p-30.
I'd recommend deciding how much work you can deal with. I've been using x264 for about 18 months now and nothing comes close to how well it transcodes on youtube. if you can deal with some extra work then x264 provides better transcode quality and smaller upload size.
For me I have a batch script which reads files from an input folder encodes them to CRF 23-24 x264 and aac 320 into a mkv for me to upload. it's like 3 clicks to encode and it's really great for most streaming sites. It has nice presets built into to the codec as well. Simply add "--preset "slow"" to the script command line and you can run it overnight for 5-6 videos for a video series, or "fast" and get a video done in 15-20minutes and have a good sample to show. And it has pages of features to tweak if need be.
Otherwise, I'd suggest going for VBR wmv, like 93%. WMV has so little to tweak in general so I can't give you advice on that. then pushing audio to 192 as audio is only a small percentage of total upload size and good audio is worth it.
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