Renee - I asked one of this group's resident Gurus the same type question. I have also reviewed his Internet material and firmly believe he is on the right track. Read what David H wrote and see if it helps you: "I mainly depend on the Canopus Procoder express plug-in encoder in Premiere, and output for high speed - at a combined audio/video 512 kbps. I never reduce the frame rate. I would rather export a smaller screen resolution (320X240) than lower the frame rate. Procoder has its weaknesses but for wmv and for conversion among formats it's a great tool in the kit. I also pay more attention to how I cut a piece destined for web compression. Wherever possible I use jump cuts versus dissolves and when I have to dissolve I keep them as short as possible - 9 frames or so. I try to use close ups, static or low motion clips and avoid long shots, unless they have a strong focal point, like distant trees with strong fall colours for example. These "rules" increase in importance as the bit rate of the compressed material decreases. At 300 kbps or lower all the faults of the compression scheme are exaggerated. For this reason I resist the temptation to use marginal clips in web work, by which I usually mean scenes that are a little underlit .
I also discovered a trick for making stills behave, and I cannot recall why I ever tried it, but the effect is dramatic. After I apply flicker removal I bring up the motion effect, and just centre the image at 0 and 100%, so there is no motion applied. Something about this completely kills the interlace effect that can cause scan lines to shimmer, even with flicker removal applied. And, staying with stills, I try to remember to convert all jpgs to tif format before using them in Premiere. If any format is going to cause me problems it is always jpg. For animating high resolution stills I swear by Canopus' Imaginate, from which I export full res AVI files to bring back to Premiere." He is right on track about the dissolves. I have never gotten them to look just right on the web. Hope this helps you ~ Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Renee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Video For Internet - need help with compression Hi! I have a 5 minute video clip, which needs to be compressed for internet. I created windows media 9 version for 256 k download and the file size is 11+ MB. Earlier I have had good results with this format for web movies. But this one, I am not happy with the resolution, and need to bring the file size to about 5 MB. What do I need to do. I could create WMV for 128 K, to reduce the file size but that would also compromise the resolution further. How do I get better results than I have and a smaller file size. Would appreciate inputs on how to achieve this. Thanks. Renee _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
