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Re: Chairman's Award Video Submissions

Hello everyone, Thanks for watching our video and I hope you enjoyed it. Wanted to post some information about how we managed to get the video down to under 5 megabytes.

First off I used the latest version of Adobe Premiere that comes in the Adobe Master Collection CS4. After you finish putting all the elements of the video together and open up the Export --> Movie option under File (in Windows) you see this screen:





You can also see the video and audio settings I used. I found that the Windows Media Format was the smallest and it also showed an estimated file size at the bottom which is helpful though not completely accurate. I've also listed the settings I used below.

Export Settings:
  • Format: Windows Media
  • Output Name: This is where you want to save and also what you want to name your file.
  • Make sure Export Video & Export Audio are checked.
Video Settings:
  • Codec: Windows Media Video 9
  • Bitrate Mode: Variable Unconstrained
  • Frame rate: 29.97 frames per second
  • Average Video Bitrate: 300
The 'Average Video Bitrate' is what you need to change in order to increase or decrease the file size of your video. We used 300 for our video but depending on the length of the video you can change this number to stay within the file limit.

Audio Settings:
  • Codec: Windows Media Audio 9.2
  • Audio Format: 32 KBPS, 44 kHz, stereo CBR
The 'Audio Format' can also effect the size of the video. It doesn't effect it at the same level that the video bitrate does but you can still save some vital space by giving it a lower KBPS count.

After you have the settings the way you want and press 'OK' the job of rendering gets moved over to Adobe Media Encoder. All that's left from there is to press Start Queue.



Hope this helps everyone when making their Chairman's Video. If you have any more questions or I wasn't completely clear on something let me know.
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