Final Cut Pro - Video Quality, what's the best but smallest?

1. chrisv39
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   I was wondering, I am converting some dvd quality scenes in my sequence and if I convert them with the current settings it comes out to 11 GB. I was wondering, what is still really good quality but small file sizes? Please help.

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2. chrisv39
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   Come on, help me please!

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3. cfulton
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   This is kind of a slow forum, but good things come to the patient. (Welcome all the same--we're glad you're here.)
   
   The first codec that comes to mind is H.264. You could drop the clips in question into Compressor and convert away; the resulting clips will be half the size (or possibly even smaller). But it'll take a while, depending on the speed of your Macintosh.

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4. chrisv39
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   cfulton Wrote:

   This is kind of a slow forum, but good things come to the patient. (Welcome all the same--we're glad you're here.)
   
   The first codec that comes to mind is H.264. You could drop the clips in question into Compressor and convert away; the resulting clips will be half the size (or possibly even smaller). But it'll take a while, depending on the speed of your Macintosh.

   
   
   Is there any codec that it will keep the resolution almost the same, could be even a tad smaller and be compressed to a lower file size? Because I converted this one file, used to be 11GB, then when I output it in Final Cut, I check marked the Recompress frames or something like that, and it is now 610MB and its really nice quality. By me putting a check mark beside that option, what did it do really?

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5. Jag
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   It's all good.  Great product

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