Adobe Premiere File Sizes

[wildfire7]

Well, I'm not totally sure its me or not, but I will take all offered suggestions.
I've been using Adobe Premiere 6.0 with a Martox 2000 setup.
Lately I've been shooting/editing music videos on it. Now, the average song is about 4 or so minutes. Now what I export each shot to the computer, each take ends up being just under 900 meg... each... Um, am I doing something wrong?
I shoot about 10 takes from different angles, and put them all on the pc, so it takes just under 10 gig to do 4 minutes/10 takes. When I get it all edited the way I like, the final avi itself is just under 900 meg too. When I compress it to an mpg, the size goes down to about 40 meg, but the quality really sucks at that point...

Can anyone explain to me if this file size is normal, or is that I am sampleing it the the pc in an incorrect way?
I'm finding it hard to believe that its correct when 4 minutes is 900 meg, and a 2 hour movie can be stored on a 4.7 gig dvd.... Any tips?!?

 

[IceThor]

That is strange. I have a RT2500 and the final size on a 27 minute project of mine was 5.3 gigs of video with 283 megs of audio(captured and exported with MatroxRT DV/DVCAM codec).

How are you exporting the movie? Are you using the DV/DVCAM compressor or did you select something like Matrox MPEG2 I-Frame, where you can set the compression level more -- thus resulting in a low file size?

Or is Windows just reporting the wrong size? (that's happened to me before) Right-click the file and select properties and see what comes up there. -Trevor

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[wildfire7]

Thanks for the concepts,
Windows shows it as a 885 meg file, each one. Thats even before I export anything.... This is when I am importing the video from the camera to the cp thru the rt2000.