I imported two mp4 movie files at DVD (SD) resolution which total 250 MB. I joined them into one movie and saved it to my hard disk drive at the same resolution and file format. The resulting file is 1538 MB in size. I want to produce a movie file of the same type and size as the original partial files. What am I doing wrong?
Using MEP 2013 on Windows Vista 32-bit with 3 GB RAM and Intel Core2 Quad CPU.
Hi
You need to determine the video bitrate of the original files and then set the export to the same value.
You can do this in Windows Explorer: -
right click a video file and select Properties,
Select the Details tab
Data rate gives you the video bitrate
Do this for the other video file
In the Export dialog, click Advanced , Advanced Video settings and change the Bitrate to the value of the original video, Ok and export the video
If they are different try exporting at both bitrates and select the one which gives the best quality.
NOTE very low video bitrates will reduce the quality of the exported file.
HTH
John EB
Hi, there must be some reason your project is so big, I noticed in your previous post you mention it took a very long time to export your project and your MEP was not responsive during this time, I think these two issues are linked, given the the size of your finished file it would indeed take time to encode.
May be you could try again and take a close look at what options you use, files do not grow for no reason, also take a look at the file you created and see if perhaps there was an accident during editing, like a track that got pusehed down the screen out of sight that should not have been there.
Either way, let us know how you get on, and with some more information who knows what will transpire.
Regards, johnp
Johnebaker, Thanks for the detailed help on determining the stats and setting them for output. I haven't tried it yet, but will soon (have been very busy with several client projects).
Off-Topic, but: in this forum, is there a way to reply to your post directly? The only options I see are to answer, edit or add to the question, so I'm using Answer. But that seems to create a new additional comment by me under my original question rather than flow chronologically under your answer.