Why Is Video Output File So Large?
Hi, everyone,
I have a video screen capture demonstrating a piece of software that I work with. The video is 5:30 long at 30 FPS. It is 7.5 MB, encoded in H.264 (I transcoded it to this format myself.)
I want to cut out 1:30 of the video. So I opened iMovie, added this video to a 30 FPS project, cropped the two portions I want from the event (minus the 1:30 I don't want), and placed them together in the project with a fade-to-black transition between them. I exported the video to the same size, using the same H.264 encoder.
Now the file is 75 MB.
Can someone tell me what I have done to increase this file so much? I would love any tips to get this file back down to 7.5 MB.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)