video compression help?

[clubber2k]

Hi,

 

I know this is a video issue but I don't know a good video forum, this is 3D related anyway. hope somebody knows..

 

I did a 3D walkthough and the file size is huge, 1GB for 6.5 minutes.

I tried to follow some online tutorials on using xvid to compress video but the result is too jumpy and annoying.

 

here is the original, pretty smooth:

 

here is the compressed jumpy version:

 

original is 24000kpbs. anything under 20000kbps gets to jumpy.. all online tutorials talk about 3000-10000kbps, how do you get these rates to run smooth?

how do you get an HD 2 hours movie to run smooth at 4GB and here I can't make a 6 minute video weight less the 1GB??

 

please help me.. or help me help myself in anyway.

 

thanks!!

Edited July 13, 2013 by clubber2k
wrong links - updated

[Chris MacDonald]

I always render out to two formats; mpeg4 (h.264) and windows media video (.wmv). Seems to do the trick, my last animation was around 5 minutes and came in at about ~130mb at a decent quality.

[Scott Schroeder]

Use Adobe Media encoder to compress your uncompressed video from your editing progam, say After Effects. Media Encoder has some really good out of the box presets for things such as wmv, Vimeo, or Youtube and the such.

[Francisco Penaloza]

Yes Media encoder is the way to go, output h.264 any computer will be able to read it, and most of portable devices too, but Media encoder has pre-build configuration for Full HD, Half HD, IPad and more.

[Ernest Burden III]

Agree on Media Encoder, though I use it from Premiere. Output to h264 in mp4 format, NOT QuickTime set to h264. I've had nothing but tears going to QT.

[clubber2k]

Thanks for you advice.

I'm guessing you didn't actually watch the youtube links.

 

the problem wasn't with the converter software but the method.

 

anyway a friend help me figure it out. when I compressed the video I didn't notice the setting was on 30fps while my video was 25fps. that created extra static frames every second and resulted in the jumpiness.

 

after I change all the settings to 25fps everything was fine.

used handbrake to encode in h.264 and all is well,

 

maybe this will help someone else sometime..

 

thanks!