# Video compression question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-compression-question/210422>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 30, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-compression-question/210422 "2003-10-30T11:55:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vlad\_M.Paler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d26b3c/32.png) [@Vlad\_M.Paler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_M.Paler)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-compression-question/210422/1 "2003-10-30T11:55:50Z")

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I recently downloaded an MPEG file, about 9 minutes long, and added my own audio, about 9 minutes worth. I used Adobe Premiere.  
My quesiton is about compressing the video and audio…what’s a quick easy way to do it? I know to use the compressors, but which one? What’s the difference between all of them? I ask this because my video clip (20 megs) plus my audio clips (about 10 or so megs), once I had exported a file, became a whopping 1.7 GIG file! There’s gotta be a better way to get it to, say, 30 megs.

What do I do?

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**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-compression-question/210422/2 "2003-10-30T12:05:45Z")

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Firstly I don’t see exactly why a 20Mb video clip would become 1.7Gb after adding the audio. To me it seems that you aren’t using any compressions whatsoever.

Can you just choose a different compression in Adobe such as Divx 5 (legal version) which may need to installed first (from [divx.com](http://divx.com)).