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Yet another what should my export settings be at. (big file)

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EH_DUBS
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so I have a 25 minute long ski movie that I want to export in hd for vimeo.

i'm having trouble getting it to look good and stay under 500mb. Normally I don't do stuff this long haha.

Should I just buy a plus account?

my export settings for trying it were
quicktime
h.264
at 5000kbps

i tried lower and lower kbps but its still over and the quality has gone down to far for comfort.

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eheath
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You're going to have to lower the rates to get a lower file size, sorry to burst your bubble.
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EH_DUBS
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i lowered them (forgot to what) and came out at 600 something mb. but the picture looked like shit.

any other plan to get this to work or do i buy plus so i can upload bigger files.
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eheath
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well you could upload a non-hd version. youtube HD supports up to 1 gb if you wanted HD.
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EH_DUBS
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alright thanks i think il just do a non hd version
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KarmaInitiative
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try windows media hd, you can get some good size files with it
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Jwenz
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if you upgrade vimeo you can hve up to 1gb file sizes
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Holte
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You're exporting at 720p not 1080p, right?
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EH_DUBS
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yeah.

i bought a vimeo plus account so its all good.
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eheath
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lol
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IanAvery-Leaf
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why lol?? wm hd looks fine
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EthanJPAskier
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haha, wm hd are some of the biggest files you'll ever see
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EthanJPAskier
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Oh and to the thread creator, even though you solved your problem, for future reference, just export with h.264 as the format, and change the encoding to vbr 2 pass, it makes the file alot smaller than quicktime .mov format
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EH_DUBS
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thanks i was doing that though.
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.jr
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how do you change the encoding..
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crazydude
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yo kid cuddie do u have Compressor?? cuz if you do you can just use the Quicktime h.264 setting and it will compress all ur shit. ya dig?

Or if u dont just export Non HD..


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KarmaInitiative
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i keep 1080p videos on my laptop in wmv and they are smaller and easier to use than h264
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