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Q: Trying to make a 1080p Quicktime file - 20GB is too big!

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I am trying to export a project for exhibition at a film festival.  It needs to be Apple ProRes 422 HQ and 1080p.  The source material was 720p Apple ProRes files.  When I export this with the ProRes/1080p settings the file is 20GB, too big to put in dropbox or on google drive.  Does anyone know how I can make this file smaller and still meet the specifications of the film festival?  I have Final Cut Pro 7, Compressor 3.5 and Quicktime 10.4.  Thanks!

power mac g5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 29, 2016 9:56 AM

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Q: Trying to make a 1080p Quicktime file - 20GB is too big!

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  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog May 29, 2016 10:23 AM in response to dmfeelings
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    May 29, 2016 10:23 AM in response to dmfeelings

    You have a couple of issues here, but to address the size issue - how long is your movie?

    1920 x 1080 ProRes HQ @ 29.97 is about 27.5 MB/sec.

    20 Gigs is about 20480 MB, is your movie about 12 minutes long?

     

    If that is the entry specification, you have to adhere to it. Do the submission guideline suggest methods for delivering the entries?

     

    Also - you are upscaling your source material from 720p to 1080p, this upscaling will have an impact on your image quality, are you OK with that?

     

     

    MtD

  • by dmfeelings,

    dmfeelings dmfeelings May 29, 2016 10:56 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    May 29, 2016 10:56 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    The movie is 16 minutes long.

     

    The guidelines do not make suggestions for delivering the film...if there's a way to send a 20GB file I'll do it at this point, image quality be damned, it's making me crazy!  It's being screened at REDCAT in LA so I imagine that's why they need this file size...

  • by Meg The Dog,Helpful

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog May 29, 2016 11:12 AM in response to dmfeelings
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    May 29, 2016 11:12 AM in response to dmfeelings

    There are services like Hightail:

    https://www.hightail.com/

     

    and WeTransfer:

    https://www.wetransfer.com

     

    if you do a Google search for large file transfers. there are probably many others.

     

    You can also burn it to a Blu-Ray data disk, which has a capacity of <>25Gb.

     

     

    MtD

  • by Shane Ross,Helpful

    Shane Ross Shane Ross May 29, 2016 11:35 PM in response to dmfeelings
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    May 29, 2016 11:35 PM in response to dmfeelings

    Sorry, but ProRes has a set data rate. You can't make it into a smaller file size with the given specs.

    Send them a hard drive or thumb drive of the film.