What's the Vimeo compression sweetspot???

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noddydog
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Normally I upload 720 HD clips to Vimeo that are ballpark 5 mins long and weigh in at +/- 300Megs after compression.

However a colleague of mine wants to put a 30 min clip onto Vimeo and end up with an even smaller file size, I'm reading approx 200 Megs from her comments.

This is unchartered territory for me and I don't have the time to experiment on her behalf.

So can one of you kind souls provide some settings for Compressor that will get her in the ball park?

I know her original footage was AVCHD (shot on NX5) converted to Pro-Res inside FCP. So that's what she'll have on her timeline.

Many thanks in advance.

MAGLINK
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H264 (MP4) 1280x720p at 1.5mbs should be OK and a good balance of file size against quality i.e apple computer

You could drop it down further to 1mbs if you are still struggling with file size!

noddydog
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Thanks Gary, just what I/she needed!

MAGLINK
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noddydog wrote:
Thanks Gary, just what I/she needed!

If you can push it 5mbs is even better but the file may be too big.

As I am in the middle of the countryside I only have 500k broadband so use 1280x720 at 1.5mbs for upload and you can see the quality here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoU1ghlp7Q8

Sorry about the content but what can you do with a boring financial advisor?:D

And yes he is mine!!!!!!

noddydog
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Thanks Gary, the YouTube quality looks more than acceptable and I've passed on your settings to my colleague. Thanks for being a good soul.