Best way to fit 45 minutes on Vimeo

goodtimej wrote on 11/23/2008, 10:42 AM

I have been trying with no success to encode and upload a video to Vimeo that I have. The problem is that my video is 45 minutes long and Vimeo has a limit of 500 megs per week to upload. The short was edited in NTSC Widescreen. Ive tried bitrates, sizes, different codecs, but I just can't seem to make it happen right for me.
Can anyone give me a suggesiton of my "best" rendering option to get this video rendered at under 500 megs?

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MUTTLEY wrote on 11/23/2008, 12:28 PM

Well the simple solution would be to upgrade to Plus, which if you're looking at uploading a 45 minute video seems like a good idea anyway. For $60 a year in addition to other perks you get 2 gigs per week instead of 500 though only 1 gig per file, still a gig should get you a lot closer than 500 megs.

Personally, though I've never tried it, seems like trying to squeeze 45 minutes of video into 500 megs is just going to make it almost unwatchable, I could be wrong though.

- Ray
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Coursedesign wrote on 11/23/2008, 2:17 PM

Well, he didn't say anything about the resolution he wanted to use.

I put more than 5 hours of video on a single layer DVD once (a timecode burn for review), and it was very nice and clear for its purpose (at quarter resolution :O).