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I am just trying to put these 3 videos together. They are 4 mb each. But, when I try to export the 1 minute file, FC exports it with 1,2GB file size. How can I change that? Thanks!
iMac 27", macOS 10.14
How you reporting exactly? Are you exporting to master file? the default codec is PriRes 422, which is a high resolution, high data rate format. Use a different setting or change the codec in master file.
Thanks for your reply!
I just changed to h.264. I don't understand too much of compression options.
I was just trying to keep the file size to as close as 12MB (all 3 originals together)
But, even with the h.264, the file size was 134MB. Better than 1,2GB. But, still huge.
You would need Compressor or maybe Handbrake to give you better control.
Camera recordings are first time encoding of an image from the sensor. You now have a compressed file. When you recompress it the quality will suffer when using the same data rate.
Haven’t done this in a while but I think you can still assemble videos in the QuickTime player.
4MB for a 20 second iPhone movie? How did you record this? In what frame size?
FWIW, I just recorded a 20 second iPhone movie, 1080p in HEVC (which provides more compression and thus smaller files than H264) and it took about 20MB.
Exporting that to H264 for "Apple Devices" at the same size made only a slightly larger file (about 26MB); so I'd expect that three of those might be about 80MB, more or less.
I tried QuickTime player. I could't fid how to put them together.
I heard about Compressor. But, I don't do too much videos. I work with photography. Sometimes, I have a small video project to do. That's why I haven't bought Compressor.
You probably can’t do that with FCP. The originals are clearly very low data rate. You don’t have that kind of control in FCP.
You can still assemble and trim clips in QuickTime Player (this is QT 10.5):
MtD
My mistake! I was just trying to simplify information. The largest one has 26 seconds and 7,8 MB.
All together are 16,5MB.
I choose Share, and then Export File.
Got it! Thanks.
I was just worried that I was doing something wrong.
These are 3 video files from the iPhone. Each of them has 4MB.
So, FC would not be a good option to put small videos together.
Sorry. I don't think you can do it anymore.
Duh. I wasn’t looking. Thanks Meg.
It worked! Thank you! The smallest file size I got. 66Mb. And it was so fast!
Why 3 video files of 20 seconds each, 4 mb each, beacome a 1,2 GB video file in FC?
