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Dear Colleagues,



I have a most perplexing dilemma involving adobe Premiere 8.0 - the academic 
edition.



Using a program called Hypercam 2.0 I am able to record whatever I may be 
doing on a computer with sound for training purposes.



Recently I recorded a 1.5 hour demonstration and was able to spit it out 
into the form of an AVI without issue.  The end file was about 790mb in 
size.



Since this was for training for my company, I went over to my trusty Adobe 
Premier and edited out a few portions, added in a few titles and put a 
transparent company logo on the bottom right hand corner of the entire 
presentation.



Of course, rendering the darn thing took three hours, but the output was 
over 4 gigs in size.  I tweaked the output settings and encoder settings but 
was not able to get the size down without severely compromising the quality 
of the video itself.



So here is my dilemma.  I have an AVI, lets say its great quality and lets 
say that its 800 mb in size.  I want to edit it down to 600mb in size and 
add a few simple titles, transitions, etc.  Am I to assume that adobe 
premier does not have the ability to do this. . . I believe that it does, 
but for the life of me I have not been able to figure out how to keep the 
video resolution as good as it is in the original without bringing the file 
size to some huge sizes.



Do I take it that when creating the actual AVI from the screen recording 
program I need to use a certain codec?  Is there a trick to this? Or are 
there other things I am simply missing.



Any assistance with regards to this will be greatly appreciated.



Thanks for your time,



The Flying Dutchman