I am in the process of editing videos and muting small chunks of sound out here and there, and then I am saving them again as mpg. I am trying to save them using the same settings of quality and size of the raw camera files which are mpg. I go to media encoder to export and I go through all the settings to try and match the settings as best as I can (I looked at the windows details property of the original raw files). I turn down the video quality to 1, match the video bitrate, resolution, audio bitrate, frequency, audio mode to mono, fps and then encode. The file size still ends up being double the size of the original files and the quality is the same if not worse. If i try dropping the video bitrate further, the quality really suffers so i don't want to do that. I would really like to get close to the same file size w/o losing the quality, double is just crazy.
I have tried many test settings and then encoding but I suspect there are many i do not not know about. Tried switching to avi, but file size is still huge. I also tried searching for this issue via google and on here a bit, but the topic does seem subjective and I didn't find exactly what I was looking for.
Using Premier pro cs2