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Fraps / After Effects / Video Sizes
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Beatrix Dacella
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-10-16 19:46:57 UTC
Hullo,

I was hoping anyone who records videos for uploading to youtube etc could give me a rough idea of the video sizes they're getting after editing and exporting?

As per title I record with fraps and edit in AE CS5.5, there's a lot of mixed info when searching with google on the best setting to use, I've kinda just stumbled my way through things up until now.

Normally the final exported file size isn't too much of an issue, however I've recently recorded a significant engagement for our corp and the raw avi file is 145GB // 1hr 23 mins long, so I'm trying to get an efficient output while retaining reasonably quality.

Tried exporting the final comp which is 1920x1018 / 30fps in H.264 format with target bitrate 3, max bitrate 9 and the mp4 output is around 1.9 GB

Does that seem a reasonable size given the length, or would you expect it to be lower?
Snipesy
Nocte Legionem
#2 - 2015-10-17 07:51:29 UTC
Its actually really tiny. If I rendered the video to my taste, it would be around 5GB. If you want to be good, 7 to 12 Mbit/s is generally where most 1080p internet videos are encoded at.

Soo... Cheat sheet.

Anything less than 3
Terrible. Blocky compression. Bad. Most live streams lie here.

3 to 8 Mbit/s
Still has noticeable artifacts. Below Average quality.

8 to 15 Mbit/s
The standard for most published videos floating around. Still pretty fuzzy when there is lots of detail but it is overall good enough.

20 to 30 Mbit/s
Blu-Ray releases or 60 FPS

50-60 Mbit/s
Blu-Ray 60 fps, 4K


Its not nice playing with big 5GB files to upload, but if you have the internet there is really little reason not to.
Beatrix Dacella
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-10-17 15:58:43 UTC
Aha, that's a handy guide for me to reference, cheers. I was never too bothered in the past about the final video sizes, I could never judge from information online whether they were normal or if I was doing something wrong, but always wondered. Thanks again.