Compressing
Video for the Web Using Premiere Pro 2,
Pg. 2
Next,
go down to the Basic Video Settings and change
the frame rate to 15 fps.
Follow
this up by going down to the Advanced Settings.
It currently has '208.00' selected, which is optimized
for broadband modem sizes. If you want to make the size
smaller and more likely to be downloaded by a 56K modem,
you should choose '100.00'. Tweaking this area
is one of the easiest ways to get smaller file sizes,
but you need to do a number of test renders to make sure
you don't lose too much quality. (If you want to see the
difference of these two main bitrates on a clip from a
reality-show based project I'm working, I've enclosed
links at the end of this article.)
Finally,
you should select 'Deinterlace' in your Output
export settings, as this will help prevent interlace artifacts.
The
final thing to decide before you click 'OK' in the Export
Settings window is whether you want to use Noise Reduction.
The idea is that if certain levels of detail are blurred,
then the overall file sizes won't be as large. I'm not
a big fan of it, as too much detail tends to get lost.
If you decide to go with it, click the 'Filters' tab
next to the 'Video' tab, as seen below.
Other
than that, you're ready to click 'OK'. You don't want
to try to compress your audio and you don't want to turn
off the two pass compression or the audience compression.
So
there you go. You have now converted a video clip to Windows
Media Video at a decent size and at a decent quality.
While every render is different, as you will see from
the following, my cropped 1.85:1 clips that were each
1 min 50 seconds long came out to 2.01
MB at the 100 Kbps rate and 3.49
MB at the 208 Kbps rate.
God
bless and happy compressing!
The
director of two feature length films and half a dozen short films,
Jeremy Hanke
founded Microfilmmaker Magazine to help all no-budget filmmakers make
better films. His first book on low-budget special effects techniques, GreenScreen Made Easy, (which he co-wrote with Michele Yamazaki) was released by MWP to very favorable reviews. He's curently working on the sci-fi film franchise, World of Depleted through Depleted: Day 419 and the feature film, Depleted.
