Capturing Video from camera with Premiere 5.5

[sanddrag]

I learned a bit about compression today. The 2 mintue 34 second (640x480 res) video was 4 gigs uncompressed. With Intel Indeo R32 compression and quality turned down to 85%, the file is now only 165 mb. I can fit it on my flash drive.

[Max Lobovsky]

If you are gonna be editing it further, and you need to compress it for space reasons, mjpeg is the way to go. For final version, mpeg2 for really high quality or divx/mpeg4/xvid/3ivx......... for anything less.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I learned a bit about compression today. The 2 mintue 34 second (640x480 res) video was 4 gigs uncompressed. With Intel Indeo R32 compression and quality turned down to 85%, the file is now only 165 mb. I can fit it on my flash drive.

Yeah you'll find all kinds of file types and compressions make the file size much smaller. The best for retaining quality but being a small size would be DivX, but then again not everyone has that. The next best is mpeg I think, or wmv. Cinepak is what we used to compress this years animation and it worked pretty well.

Also, nice time length on your video