If a minute of your rendered video is significantly bigger than a minute of the source video, you might have the bitrate set up too high. You can look up some recommended bitrate values for 4K 60fps H265 video.Clintron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:27 am Luckily all the source materials that I have gathered for this project are H264, 3840x2160 @ 60FPS so no need to use any AI upscale or anything. I think most of the source material was shot on very fancy cameras. RED?? I started using Adobe Premiere Pro with a 2nd Pass and my little mini cuts are looking fantastic. No dip in quality. I'm not sure why my little edits are so big in file size though...but I think it'll be okay.
Try lowering it, do couple of test renders with different values and settings, compare the visual quality, file size and render time, and come up with some render template that you feel comfortable with.
In other words, you want to keep lowering the bitrate as much as possible as long as it doesn't affect the video quality beyond the point that is noticable and unacceptable for you.
2-pass rendering is great because it helps you achieve the same quality with lower file size, at a cost of longer render times.
Using H265 encoding can cut the file size by about half compared to H264, again at the cost of longer render time AND resources needed to play these videos.
You don't have to figure out all that technical stuff right away btw. :)
Good luck!