Formatting video for upload

[beaky]

Working on my first complete video project (with Premiere 5.1), and having trouble getting the filesize down. It's a 6-minute clip; I've seen clips that length rendered at under 100MBs, but not sure what type of file, etc. will yield best results. Tried exporting it as an avi at a smaller frame size, but it's still over 400 Megs!
I guess I can lower the framerate (currently default at about 30fps)
I'm looking at tutes, etc. for more info, but if anyone has a suggestion (other than breaking it up), I'd like to hear it.

[Ecko]

Render it as an uncompressed video file (.avi), then convert the output file to DivX format. DivX is by far the best format keeping great quality at a low file size.

You can use Advanced X Video Converter to convert, it's a great program. It can also convert to WMV and MPEG, but DivX should be best.

http://www.aoamedia.com/download.htm

By the way, is Premier a good editing program? It seems really great, but it's not that cheap.

[beaky]

Render it as an uncompressed video file (.avi), then convert the output file to DivX format. DivX is by far the best format keeping great quality at a low file size.

You can use Advanced X Video Converter to convert, it's a great program. It can also convert to WMV and MPEG, but DivX should be best.

http://www.aoamedia.com/download.htm

By the way, is Premier a good editing program? It seems really great, but it's not that cheap.

Thanks. I think I'm already doing conversion with Premiere, but not sure. Right now I'm exporting at 15fps for a Quick Time file; we'll see how that comes out when I get backfrom work.
I've only just started messing with it; so far the one thing I'm sure of is that my rig can barely handle it.