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Tom Guycot
Oct 15, 2008

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Let me start by saying I'm 100% inexperienced at editing, encoding, etc., so theres very likely something incredibly obvious that I'm missing or doing wrong, but I'm losing my mind here working on a project for my parents, and I can't find any solution online. I would be crazy thankful for any help.

I finished editing together a bunch of family vacation footage in premiere, came out to about 1h15m of video, however when I try to export I just keep running into problems. I'm exporting H.264, 23.976fps, ntsc, 1080, VBR 2 pass, a bit rate between 18-30 (tried a few different settings to see if it would work) since I wanted to have a copy for them to archive if it needs to be transferred down the line. However after it gets done spending the 2 hours rendering, it spits out an unreadable file between 25kb and 3gb, when the estimated file size is around 10gb to 16gb. If I do small sample clips, which I was doing to compare the quality of various settings on the final picture, it works just fine, no problem. I don't get any errors during the encoding, it all seems to go fine. I can not figure out why this is happening. Is there some limit to the file size that can be created or something? I tried a few different setting before settling on h.264, which looked the best of anything I tried, such as mpeg2. Now, with the mpeg2 it rendered the full video just fine, the output file was perfectly readable with a file about 13gb, but no matter what settings I played with I couldn't get it to look as nice as the h.264 so it was kind of a no go.

Maybe its really stupid to begin with I'm making the file so large and thats overkill for a backup? Or maybe theres some combination of settings I couldn't find to provide a better option for a backup quality one before I encode smaller manageable ones to send to them? The original video was avchd with something like, 26mbps, so I wanted to try and lose as little quality as possible with a backup.

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