video compression

[Hitokiri]

ok I just made a music vid and I need to compress it. The file is 157 MB. Can anyone help me compress the file. I'm using Adobe Premiere. I tried to compress a old music vid I made but it got all screwy. Any pointers?

[glitch1501]

i would say use a program called gordian knot


http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/index.php

then use these guides to encode into various codecs

http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2&page=1

my brother uses it with premeire, and his video quaility is awesome

[TroutNinja]

heh, that's good but for a more hands on approach, you can also use VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/).
A little warning however, Virtual Dub is complex and I don't know a good place to look for guides, although http://www.doom9.org is a good place to start.

[shooraijin]

As far as format suggestions, I offer MPEG-1 because most people can play it and it has very good compression ratios. The only drawback is that it's slow (although not *that* slow on modern systems).