is 42 Gb too big for 1 hour movie?

I´m exporting 1hour movies HDV - 1080p25 with quicktime conversion:
compresion h264, quality best, multipass, 636x357, current, prep.for internet streaming.

once ready in quicktime is 42 Gb wich I believe is too much!

I want best resolution but I think there must be something wrong in it!
Do I need to use Compressor and in this case wich option shall I use?




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Just do the math: 42 GB for an hour of footage is equal to a data rate of 143 megabits per second. Whether that's a reasonable data rate depends entirely on what you're trying to do, which you haven't told us.

42 GB sounds far too high for a web streaming movie. Don't forget to select a desired data rate. Typically something around 500-1000 Kbps gives a good trade-off between quality and size. And don't forget to also set audio to AAC.

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For reference, I have semi-hd (960 x 540) samples posted at various streaming rates to demonstrate what kind of performance you might expect:

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Thanks a lot to all of you!

I need a copy with best resolution possible for an exhibition and probably television.
The other could be for internet streaming.

You tell me to select a desired data rate, wich I had it in automatic! Isn´t that better? Is that the reason that makes it too big?

Also when I put sound as you told me to AAC instead of linear PCM, what's the difference?
Also now I set mpeg 4 AAC LC Enc. setting to 128 kbps. and render quality best, is that all right?

Waiting for your kind reply!

Maybe you should ask this question on the new Media compression and conversion forum.

Internet streaming and television are wildly different outcomes. You really need to make two completely different versions of your project in order to get the best quality for both.

For the internet, as you know, you need the file size to be small, and you do this by knocking out things that (hopefully) are not that noticeable to the eye. For TV, the file size is pretty much irrelevant, and you need to deliver whatever the TV station requires it to be delivered as in as high a quality as you can manage.

Anyway, check out the compression forum. Lots of good advice in there about this stuff.

thanks a lot Jude, I´ll check there!