Video size in mb?

[osgood_]

I don't have a great deal of experience in this area only having put up a handful of embedded youtube videos.

What is a realistic size, in mb, a 5min mp4 file should make?

I've just been given a 520mb file which the client wants to stream on their website. Should I create a youtube channel, or get them to, and upload it to that and pull it in or just upload it to the hosting server and stream it from that?

Any advice?

Cheers

Os.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

It needs to be down-scaled.

520MB for 5 minutes is huge.

For example: a full length DVD movie (minus menus, extras and in standard definition) is around 3GB. With your client's settings, that movie would only be about 30 minutes long.

[osgood_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jon+Fritz+II  wrote

It needs to be down-scaled.

520MB for 5 minutes is huge.

For example: a full length DVD movie (minus menus, extras and in standard definition) is around 3GB. With your client's settings, that movie would only be about 30 minutes long.

520mb - WTF was my initial reaction.

How does one go about scaling this monster down?

Thats why I'm trying to find out what the approx size in mb a 5min video should be so I can go back to client and get whoever produced it for them to provide something more realistic.

Os

[Jon Fritz]

I'm sure it's just full screen, high definition raw video that was "turned into mp4 for the internet". I bet it's something like 1920 x x1080 or bigger.

1024x768 is probably overkill for most "here's a video" videos online.

For a quick and dirty compression, in the past, I've uploaded to youtube, then downloaded that video as mp4 using the add-on for firefox.

You could use premiere, or really any image editing program (even Windows Movie Maker does an OK job), to change the size pretty easily.

[osgood_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jon+Fritz+II  wrote

I'm sure it's just full screen, high definition raw video that was "turned into mp4 for the internet". I bet it's something like 1920 x x1080 or bigger.

1024x768 is probably overkill for most "here's a video" videos online.

For a quick and dirty compression, in the past, I've uploaded to youtube, then downloaded that video as mp4 using the add-on for firefox.

You could use premiere, or really any image editing program (even Windows Movie Maker does an OK job), to change the size pretty easily.

Its full screen.

I've worked out, from those that are around 5mins long on youtube, the size should be about 28mb for 360p (480 x 360) and 78mb for 720p (1280 x 720)

Os

EDITED:

Seems to be all kinds of sizes in terms of mb - according to 1 video 720p should be around 48mb in total

[pziecina]

The first thing i would ask myself is 'what is the users download speed'?

At a minimum they would have to download 104mb per min. in order for there to be no buffering of the video, with 150mb per min. probably being the minimum connection speed required if one takes into account network variations, and mobile probably requiring a 4G connection in order to be certain of no buffering.

[osgood_]

pziecina  wrote

The first thing i would ask myself is 'what is the users download speed'?

At a minimum they would have to download 104mb per min. in order for there to be no buffering of the video, with 150mb per min. probably being the minimum connection speed required if one takes into account network variations, and mobile probably requiring a 4G connection in order to be certain of no buffering.

Maybe I'll suggest an animated gif - 5 or 6 frames.

Dont deal with much video myself as its a PITA. I dont mind the 20/30 second full page videos you see on some sites but these long-information videos should be resigned to youtube or the dustbin preferably.

Anyway I'll throw it back at the client and get whoever provided it to them to come back with something more realistic if they want me to get involved.