Chairman's Award Video Submissions

[Tottanka]

Great Video and awesome writing Dan! you guys rock!

[Pat Arnold]

Thank-you for sharing your submission. Team 1557 submitted Chairman's written materials for the 1st time & is now figuring out how to approach the DVD. All examples posted by other teams of both written & now DVD work are VERY helpful.

Great job by the way. It's amazing how much you covered in the brief time allowed. The combination of still photography & video works well; plus I agree that your opening deserves a strong "thumbs up"!

[falconmaster]

Here is ours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGTRkXnIZQ

[Chris Fultz]

have you created the "small" version yet?
we have the 3 minute, regular version done. Wondering the process for creating the smaller one that has to be included.

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

have you created the "small" version yet?
we have the 3 minute, regular version done. Wondering the process for creating the smaller one that has to be included.

First of all, thanks everyone for all the support! A lot of hard work was put into this video, and we are very glad that you all enjoyed it.

Chris-
We actually managed to compress the whole video down to the 5 megabyte required size using Adobe Premier. I can you the settings used if you want.

[Tottanka]

Here is the 2669 video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Js0OQhdso

Enjoy!

[Eric DeMaso]

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.