Saving and Exporting files

[cubic_L&D]

Thank you for helping a novice.

I have a 3+ hour video, about 520MB. I cut out a 50 minute segment from it and save it as another file. Then I export it. I have tried 3 different settings, but for some reason this small 50 minute portion of the 3 hour video exports bigger than the original video! I am lost. the 50 minute video was at least 750MB when it exported. Sometimes too when I export it just decides to crash. But the size is really more of the issue.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help!

[R Neil Haugen]

Post a screen-grab of the Export dialog box with the settings you're using. Use the picture icon in the reply box formatting bar so the pic shows in your reply.

Neil

[cubic_L&D]

Thank you Neil!

Here you go.....

[R Neil Haugen]

What do you get with H.265/HEVC?

Neil

[cubic_L&D]

I've only tried the H.264

Maybe I can try the H.265

But I know that when I tried HEVC, it was even bigger than 700MB!

[cubic_L&D]

Sorry Neil. What I wrote down on my log is that when I tried HEVC, it only did audio when I double clicked to play the video. There was only audio playing. No video 😞

[R Neil Haugen]

Then something was amiss in that export ... try the H.265/HEVC again, and screen-grab the Export dialog settings. Scroll down into the Video tab settings, and drop the Bitrate settings down some.

Neil

[cubic_L&D]

Thank you Neil.

I am exporting it again. Here is a screenshot of what I used:

[cubic_L&D]

Still no luck Neil.

After using those settings, it exported double the size, making it even way bigger.

I think it's time to tell the stakeholder that it just isn't possible.

Thank you for your help anyway.

I appreciate it.