Is it always supposed to be that big?

[Yarek]

...that's what she said

Actually - I'm using a Mac and until I get a bit more comfortable with the actual recording of videos I'm using iMovie to edit/render the videos in 720p/30fps. I've just created a video that's just under 10 minutes I think and it's over 700mb in size. Is this normal?

Cheers,
Yarek.

 

[Chuckles85]

yes... I did an hour at 1080 @ 30fps and it came to over 4gb

 

[gpzDave]

I have a 9:42 video that I rendered in ".WMV" (720p - 30FPS) and it came out at 427MB.

So 700MB isn't ridiculous, and .WMV videos have a very low file size.

 

[Yarek]

Yeah, not sure how to output to WMV on a Mac as I'm new to iMovie and Macs altogether. I'll have to look into that at some point.

 

[Trinith]

...that's what she said

Actually - I'm using a Mac and until I get a bit more comfortable with the actual recording of videos I'm using iMovie to edit/render the videos in 720p/30fps. I've just created a video that's just under 10 minutes I think and it's over 700mb in size. Is this normal?

Cheers,
Yarek.

Yeah I'd say that's too big. Render into a WMV container, rather than MOV. You get 95% of the quality at about 50% of the size.

 

[Yarek]

Well after waiting for 2 hours for the video to upload, Youtube decided it should be 360 rather than 720!!!

Had a look and still can't see where you can specify the resolution your video should be at. The full movie looks fine on my machine, just not once uploaded to Youtube. I'm such a noob - or youtube is a bitch... one or the other!

 

[Yarek]

Well after waiting for 2 hours for the video to upload, Youtube decided it should be 360 rather than 720!!!

Had a look and still can't see where you can specify the resolution your video should be at. The full movie looks fine on my machine, just not once uploaded to Youtube. I'm such a noob - or youtube is a bitch... one or the other!

EDIT: Never mind - I just wasn't patient enough for Youtube to sort itself out - it's in 720 now.

 

[Trinith]

Well after waiting for 2 hours for the video to upload, Youtube decided it should be 360 rather than 720!!!

Had a look and still can't see where you can specify the resolution your video should be at. The full movie looks fine on my machine, just not once uploaded to Youtube. I'm such a noob - or youtube is a bitch... one or the other!

EDIT: Never mind - I just wasn't patient enough for Youtube to sort itself out - it's in 720 now.

That's another reason to keep em smaller. YT has to process the video twice, essentially. Once to get it into standard resolutions, and again to get it into HD. Bigger vids take that much longer, though it's generally only 10-15 minutes...

 

[pizzaonaninja]

you got a good size...

I have an SD vid (640x480) that's 40 minutes long, but is 18GB!

also: "that's what she said!" (Is it always supposed to be that big?)

 

[Stenno]

Yeah I've struggled with this too using windows movie makers. I've dropped the bitrate down to 5000kps as before they were coming in at over a gig in file size!

 

[JollyRoger]

as the others said, 720 with wmv keeps the size down and quality up.