[SBE] Video question: Quicktime render is unusually LARGE

[Kent Winrich]

Us MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ and you can adjust the
percentage of quality to make it smaller.

Kent Winrich
New York/Raleigh

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Curt Yengst <cyengst at star991fm.com> wrote:


>  I'm not a full time video production guy, but the occasional job comes

> up.

>

> I had a request from a client to take a 5 minute (20MB) Windows Media video

> clip and convert it to Quicktime.  Easy enough, I thought.

>

> I was able to easily import it into Vegas 5 (my current platform), then

> "Render As" Quicktime.

>

> A couple hours (!) later, it finishes, but the finished Quicktime file

> weighs in at 13GB!

>

> What did I do wrong??

>

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