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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.

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.

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.