VSE render output files very large

Hi,

I’m having an issue with a video I’m trying to render out. Initially this seemed to be working well so I must’ve tripped some setting somewhere accidentally.

I’m rendering out a VSE project which is made up of 720p 60fps clips. Ideally I’d like to be able to cut that down to 30fps to make uploading to Vimeo a bit smoother but that’s not my big problem.

My main issue is that the project renders out to 5 GB for 3m30s of video.

Looking at my output settings I cant see an obvious cause . I’m using the h.264 preset settings. I’ve tried a few others but it doesn’t seem to make much difference.

Format: h.264 Lossless: unchecked
Bitrate: 6000 Gop Size:18

Minimum: 0
Maximum:9000
Buffer: 1792

Mux:
Rate: 10080000
Packet Size: 2048

Audio Codec AAC
Bitrate: 320

ZiplineVideo.blend (1.14 MB)

Do you have the start frame and end frame set correctly?
For 720P, do you have resolution x: 1280 and y: 720? and 100%
Below is a snapshot of my settings. Maybe in comparing your setup and mine you will be able to find the error.



Do you have the start and end frames set correctly?
Below is a snapshot of my settings, maybe you can compare yours to mine and find the problem.