huge files being exported in premiere pro & VDub

[sabrina-il.livejournal.com]

So I recently moved to Premiere (my WMM died so I'm taking the big leap) and I have a question. I make a vid, export it, and it comes out HUGE. I mean 30 seconds is about 250MG. Most frustrating since you can't really upload that kind of thing online.

I know this must sound like an obvious one but I've looked around and (like many very simple Premiere issues) there's no answer I've been able to find. Is there a setting I'm missing? Does it take another program?

Also, I use VDub to cut my clips (since Premiere doesn't play with my torrent-ed .avi files) and they all come out HUGE as well. I mean I cut like 10 seconds from a scene and the file is, once again, 250MG. I don't mind it that much cos I got some space and it's taught me to watch twice cut once but I was wondering if perhaps that too is fixable. I usually mark the clip I want and do File->Save As AVI.

Thank you, any help mucly appriciated!!

Comments

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

Don't know about Premiere, but in Vdub you should select "direct stream copy" for video as well as audio and it will just cut the clip without re-encoding. It should save really fast that way.

[petitevanou.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much I can help, I have just started using premiere pro as well. But well, I am just going to tell you what I do.

First most avi files that you dload, will be xvid or dvix and premiere does not like these so I reencode as wmv the episodes I will use before importing them to premiere . For that I use Riverpast video cleaner ( http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/videocleaner/) I could email it to you if you want . your newly encoded file will only be a little bigger that the avi file, but not much more.

when I export , I choose microsoft avi and no compression, so first I will end up with a very big file ( 2 to 6 gigs) depending on the frame size. Then I reencode that file using either window media encoder, or virtual dub, one way or the other, your file will be pretty small. 10 to 50 MB for around 5 minutes, depending on frame size and quality. If you need the river past encoder, let me know. Hope that helped a little. I have noticed too that there is nothing out there for premiere or very little !
Of course I Am no expert and there could be a much better way to to all this, which I 'd love to know if there is :D