Stephen Eastwood
May 21st, 2008, 02:36 AM
I seem to be having issues getting a grip on compression settings.
I have HD footage from several sources, and in general what I want is a proxy and a smaller compressed file, but at full HD size lets say.
The proxy can be smaller in dimension as I have been doing, but where my issue lies is when I take the hd footage and render as I keep trying different things and its kind of giving me either a very compressed video or uncompressed, and no matter what settings I change (keeping dimensions stable) the file is usually very small and very compressed.
Lets say I want to take some avchd files and convert them so someone has the full hd size to see on an hd tv but I want a much smaller compressed file, what are good settings?
if it would be 1 gig file uncompressed I want something like 200 megs (as a ratio) currently it just seems like I end up with a 70meg file that is so way over compressed at full res that I woudl not give it to someone to watch.
I think I would like WMV or quicktime since they are very widely used and most all computers can see them, and really I think WMV may be overall more what I want because of this post/question http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?p=880892#post880892 but quicktime is what I want to figure out just so I have that option.
Thanks for any help/advice
I have HD footage from several sources, and in general what I want is a proxy and a smaller compressed file, but at full HD size lets say.
The proxy can be smaller in dimension as I have been doing, but where my issue lies is when I take the hd footage and render as I keep trying different things and its kind of giving me either a very compressed video or uncompressed, and no matter what settings I change (keeping dimensions stable) the file is usually very small and very compressed.
Lets say I want to take some avchd files and convert them so someone has the full hd size to see on an hd tv but I want a much smaller compressed file, what are good settings?
if it would be 1 gig file uncompressed I want something like 200 megs (as a ratio) currently it just seems like I end up with a 70meg file that is so way over compressed at full res that I woudl not give it to someone to watch.
I think I would like WMV or quicktime since they are very widely used and most all computers can see them, and really I think WMV may be overall more what I want because of this post/question http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?p=880892#post880892 but quicktime is what I want to figure out just so I have that option.
Thanks for any help/advice