Video Podcast
by dbslone
on
Jun 7, 2006 at 12:14:11 pm
I am in the process of making a video podcast and i have the content recorded to dvd and need to import to premiere so that i can edit the video and add things to it, is it possible to import a .vob file to premiere so that i don't loose quality? tried dvd-to-avi which works but takes forever and 10 days. I have the option of recording to mini-dv just trying to avoid that since it will take longer to go that route. The second question and most important question i have is i have noticed video podcasts seem to be around the 40mb range when i compress mine i am getting around 80MB, i am using a generic converter to .mp4 with h265 which could be my issue any advice?
Re: Video Podcast by Jonathan Miller on Jun 8, 2006 at 2:02:23 am
Without a doubt, one of my favorite programs is MPEG Streamclip. You can take a .vob file and quickly and easily convert it to just about any format you'd like. Now, I've never used it on a PC (I'm Mac-only) but it just works like a charm for me and it does come in a Windows version.
Re: Video Podcast by dbslone on Jun 8, 2006 at 12:00:54 pm
turns out you need the quicktime mpeg 2 plug-in as well before the program will work properly. thanks for info on the program once i get the money together for the plug-in i will give the program another shot to see if it will speed things up for me.
Re: Video Podcast by dbslone on Jun 8, 2006 at 7:06:09 pm
the episode is going to be about 30 mins...it's imag shots of a speaker...i have got it compressed down to 100MB but when i look at like photoshop tv and other video podcasts they are running around the 50MB area after compression
Re: Video Podcast by Jonathan Miller on Jun 8, 2006 at 8:30:18 pm
Hmmm, 100MB sounds about right for what you're doing. You could lower the bitrate for the video down to about 500Kbps if you're encoding in H.264 and that might make the difference.
Keep in mind that Photoshop TV has a lot of screen captures which compress ridiculously efficiently (say that 5 times fast...) so you're not getting a very good comparison.
