Importing & exporting

[Whiteybags]

Hi
I have a video file. It is current a windows media video file. I need it to be avi. I imported it into premiere. It was 5.7MB. I exported it. I tried all compression types available. The smallest the file exports at is 20MB which is really bad quality. The only decent quality is 60MB. I'm importing the file into another program and because of the size of it - it will not run smoothly. Is there anyway of keeping it near its original 5.7MB size and retaining the quality?
Please any help appreciated.

 

[Akribie]

WMV and other CODECs that use temporal compression (ie they do not store each frame individually, but store differences between frames instead), all result in much smaller file sizes than, say, DV. But temporarily-compressed CODECs are not compatible with Premiere for editing (with the exception of MPEG if you have the MainConcept plug-in).

You can always expect a huge increase of file size to generate an editable input file to Premiere from a WMV original if you want to maintain quality.

Edit the big file and export the result to another WMV file if delivery size is your problem.