iMovie: size of exported movies - 10 times larger than input
iMovie has been nothing but an exercise in frustration.
Last one: I need to edit some movies (conference recording, mostly slide shows with audio). It is simple enough. Clear fluff from the front and the end as people fiddle with the presentation, insert a clean slide title at the front and a closing slide at the end. I managed to get that done.
Now I want to export the result back as an .mp4 file. The trouble is that the output is much MUCH larger than the input. The input is some 49MB. The output is 590MB.
I tried reducing quality and resolution. Even at 540p and low quality, the output is still 230MB.
Why is that ? What other options do I have to make the result at least comparable to the input file in size ?
BTW: the input sound is mono. But the output is stereo. Not sure if this explains the effect on size ...
And the saving is incredibly slow too - it takes over 4 minutes to export one movie. Surely there must be more efficient ways of doing this ? Or I do miss some settings / options ?
Albert
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13