Best Compression Settings for Reduced File Sizes

I've been compressing MP4s and trying to improve the video file size but I'm surprised that Adobe Media Encoder is creating larger file sizes despite reducing the dimensions and audio quality. I've tried MP4 and FLV export settings. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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You have posted your question in a forum dedicated to the Final Cut Studio application Color. It is a very specialized program to grade (adjust) the color in video/film images. We know nothing regarding PDFs.
Have you tried posting this on an Adobe support site?
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Best Compression Settings for Internet - jagged lines

Hi all,
interested in seeing what people think the best compression settings are from FCE HD to Quicktime. I have a 2 minute video to compress which needs to go on the web. Attempts so far have resulted in jagged edges/lines on any footage which is moving. Locked off shots look great though. I'm trying to keep file size to under 10MB which shouldn't be a problem.
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I have Pr CC2014 on a Win7 PC, with a Nvidia Quadro FX3800 and I'm having nothing but problems lately. Apart from CUDA doesn't open properly, my exports are getting worse and worse. The quality is much degraded from the preview in edit. Now compression seems to be working in reverse. Today a simple 9 minute interview (a mixture of hdv and hdtv clips, with just a couple of dip to black transitions and a short aep import, output to h.264, with a YouTube 720/ 25fpsHD preset), ended with a file size of 1.7gb, which is two or three times as big as all the material in the sequence! Up until CC2014, it was around 200/ 300mb! I even tried exporting to MPEG 2. Although a lower file size, it is still double what I have been getting previously and the YouTube quality isn't good enough.
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Frame size, 1440x1080,
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Fields, upper first,
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Composite in liner color
My output preset is h.264 but keeps defaulting to match source high bit r ate,
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I want to reduce pdf size up to 5mb for mailing perpose, anybody have any option to reduce it since I have used optimiser & reduce file size option but its not helpfull.

I want to reduce pdf size up to 5mb for mailing perpose, anybody have any option to reduce it since I have used optimizer & reduce file size option but its not helpful.

The optimizer can reduce space, but some things can't get smaller. Text for example. Play with the settings, examine the results of Audit Space Usage.
Or give up. Even 5 MB is too large for a bulk mailing, by far. Instead put it on your web site and mail a link - done!

Compress PDF vs. Reduced File Size Quartz Filter?

Sometimes the PDFs I produce through the print function get pretty huge.
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Reducing file size for YouTube's 2 gig limits

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Reduce file size for posting

I am trying to upload some photos to eBay. The original file size ris under 5Mb in Aperture but eBay claims it's too large at over 9Mb (the max apparently is 7Mb).
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You can look at the exported files in the Finder to see the size the size and you can tell if it really is to big or if something else is going on.
So how did you export the images you tried to upload already? What settings did you use? There are a few different ways to control file size and which to use depends on how you plan on using the images.
Assuming you're exporting as JPG you can drop the quality slider down that will definitely bring the file size down but again without knowing how you exported how much over the file really is and how you plan on using them it's difficult to get more specific.
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Why can I only "Save as Other... Reduce File Size" a single time for an Adobe X file?

We are struggling with our form editing in that anytime we make a change and save the file size is doubled. As a work around we started using the ...Reduce File Size save as. However, we can only use that once per file. Some of our forms contain several hundred fields that are edited, with the behavior as is we cannot save our work as we go.
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1. Open a file in Acrobat X and note it's file size.
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Just do a standard Save As. The problem is that Save includes the old and new. Save As deletes the old. Also, if you distribute the form it is locked from editing as I understand it.

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1) I was surprised to see page reduce file size take it from 50 megs to 20 megs…when I looked at a large jpeg file, its size went form 230k to 70k, but the entire image (not just the visible part after the mask) was there (I was hoping it would crop to the mask).
I am curious, what exactly is reduce file size doing?
Is it applying a quartz filter that I can control through colorsync (I think not)?
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You will need to test the results, but I suspect it is definitely lowering the resoltion to either screen resolution (72dpi) or double (150dpi) and upping the compression of the .jpegs.
In contrast to the Quartz filters, the results from file reduction in Pages is disappointing with a hefty loss of quality for not so much file reduction.
I would work with known distiller settings in Acrobat Pro for a better result.
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I need to export it without loosing any quality and export another one that meets the Youtube and Vimeo limits on size.
Vimeo is 500 MB per week, sometimes I upload 4 videos per week. I think Youtube you can only upload 500 MB at a time.
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What are the best sequence settings for HD video?
What are the best export settings for HD without loosing any quality?
What are the best export settings for the size to come out around 500 MB with loosing the least amount of quality possible?
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/713070
On the above thread I used the 5th anwer, and it's going to take about 7 hours to export a 4 minute video :/

It Stands for "Coder Decoder."
Your format is like a container for your video file. Certain containers can hold certain codecs and not others. Other containers can hold other codecs. Sometimes different containers can hold the same codecs.
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I have a 3D animation that is rendered to bmp frames.
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