12 gigs to 12 gigs doesnt make sense

[JohnMatrix]

Ok long story short. I have 12 gigs in raw AVI files....in premiere all of these files are edited, and huge portions are cut down....Now if I export this file with NO COMPRESSION in premiere, just export it AS IS as an AVI it comes out to once again 12 gigs. This shouldnt be. All the clippings are edited and cut, so I dont get why premiere is exporting it as if I have edited nothing, (but of course the video comes out edited) and maintains the same size.
Anyone know the answer to this? Hopefully it is some simple export setting that I am missing........

Thanks guys,
John

[drfsupercenter]

Probably, they were compressed and now they are uncompressed. Try VirtualDub to encode them - the Microsoft MPEG-4 codec works, so does XviD but you would need to install XviD for that.

[JohnMatrix]

Man, thanks, but those ideas are over.....when I try to export my video using XVID, premiere freezes, EVERYTIME ive even installed different versions.....as for the MS mp4, the size is INCREDIBLE and the quality isnt to show for. the QT mp4 works good, but the file will be 500 megs and just barely passing quality standards.....

Oh, and what did you mean its going from compressed to uncompressed?

The file folder itself is 12 gigs...
the files total 8 minutes 33 seconds (EDITED)
unedited the files are like 25 minutes total (making it 12 gigs)
so from 25 minutes to 8 minutes, it shouldnt be 12 gigs for the damned UNCOMPRESSED FILE....
damn i hate encoding

[drfsupercenter]

What I mean is this: Let's say that originally your files were DivX or XviD. Now, you save them as uncompressed, so that if the files were the SAME length they would be significantly larger than originally. That is what I mean.

[JohnMatrix]

Ok I see what you mean...but my files were Raw Avi....so like 21 seconds is 276 megs.....therefore it cant get any bigger, if i save it as uncompressed the file would come out as 276 megs...but lets say I cut out half of that file and made the clip 10 seconds, shouldnt it be around 135 megs or so uncompressed instead of carrying that cut off weight of 276?

[drfsupercenter]

very odd. Why do you need the filesize lower - are you burning them to a DVD? You could try the XviD codec with VirtualDub - that is probably the smallest the files will get. As for the MS codec, I don't know why the huge filesize - I recently saved a 5 minute music video with MP3 audio and it was around 30 MB.
What program are you saving these in?

[JohnMatrix]

Well I recorded the avi's with "FRAPS", a program used to turn video game demos into video files. Also I want this video smaller for people to download, nobody wants to download 400 megs of which they might not even enjoy in the end.
Ill try this virtual dub idea, alot of people have been saying the same thing,
thanks