
For those who need to just cut & re-connect sections of an H.264 file, a re-muxing app is what you probably want to work with.Zamzar had been trusted by individuals and businesses since 2006. But again, Premiere will have re-encoded every frame. Premiere can use intraframe previews in the "smart previews" process for the final encode if the previews and final export are to the same format/codec. Which is why Premiere re-encodes long-GOP H.264 media. and if you don't know what that is, look it up. It's been built for a primarily broadcast workflow. Quite frequently, if you cut the corners, you have to choose between which lowered quality items you will deem acceptable.Īnd there are times when peole get very angry when told they can't get "there" the way they want to do it. Occasionally you can cut some major corners and still have the apparent quality or usefulness of the end product. Quite a few posts on this and other forums are from people who don't want to do the "long way" to do something, but want the same results via some shortcut of some kind. It was brief but both accurate and comprehensive. It wasn't emotionally supportive and empathetic, because to Jim that was a waste of time typing. I can't see anything he said that was in any way rude or not to the point about the issue. Which will necessarily involve compromises. because if you can't control the recording process, bluntly, you do have to then deal with all the crap later. His last comment that you objected to is still in that vein. "You got X problem, do Y." Becuase in his experience, doing Y would simply fix the problem now and everyone could move on. No attempt to be condesceding or curt, just no attempt at being emotionally supportive either. Jim's answers in this case were exactly as described. And the "curmudgeonly" responses were something I was used to from growing up. I miss them both, as they gave help from a depth of experience to so many. These days so many do find that offensive. They didn't worry about emotional niceties, expected working adults could deal with short direct comments. They spent little time writing, but actually within their posts were the answers. When I first started out 'here', he and "shooternz" Craig tended to give short, blunt, and rather hard responses. But also directly aimed at the 'core' issue of the question. Jim's responses were always tending to the short, pungent, and cryptic. I cannot get a usable output file to save my life. Also, if all I'm doing is clipping out a short portion (which is sometimes the case) why on earth must it re-encode the whole file to save it? Once, I just added a title slide and my video came out 10 times the size! Today's file just has some small sound edits and I removed a 3 second section. I've gone through all kinds of online tutorials on this with zero success. The bitrate is actually far higher despite the much lower quality.Ĭlearly I'm doing something wrong becauase it seems impossible that Zoom Webinar is far superior at creating smaller, clear video files than Premiere Pro. Also, it looks no better than the original which was 1/10th the size.Īny options I try to get the file size down at best get the file size below 1 gb, but the text on the presentation slides is no longer clearly readable and the aspect ratio is much smaller (e.g., 640 x 360). If I output the file to try to match the original specs I get a 2 gb file, which is far too large to distribute to viewers. I cannot get decent output from this program no matter what I try. Often, I have to do a few edits and I use Premier Pro.


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A 1.5 hour webinar, recorded by Zoom, produces a good quality mp4 file with clear visuals that is less than 200 megs at 1920 x 1080 with a 254 kbps total bitrate. My company hosts webinars and we provide the recordings to guests. I know others have asked these questions online and I've read a lot of replies over a span of a few months but my issue has never been adequately resolved.
