Seeing what file size will be

[garygiles63]

HI

Is there a way to see what the the file size will be when the file has been converted.

Gary

[Woodstock]

Yes, by doing the encode. Anything else is a guess, and can be wildly incorrect.

The same settings used for an anime and an action film can result in 90% compression on the anime, and 30% compression on the action film.

[garygiles63]

Woodstock,

Thanks for the reply.

I see of course that makes sense, so a black screen with white text, would be a lot smaller file size than say a movie with lots of action, for the same amount of time.

Have I got that right?

G.

[Woodstock]

Pretty much. I have my own preset I use for all HD content, unless something specific bothers me. More movement, variety of color, or more detail/noise makes for a larger output. Something with a lot of "noise" (like film grain or static) gets MUCH larger, as the encoder tries to faithfully render the noise.

[Rorchach91]

Sure, and its also about the question "How does this video been encoded". Different codecs "weave" pictures in different ways, some more effective and save spaces, some less effective and waste more space to "store the pictures"(if we imagine that a video is made with million pictures)

[alex 64]

here is my method to estimate the size of the encoded video
I run the encoding and I stop it at 5% and I multiply the size by 20.

[garygiles63]

Alex, thank you, will def, use that.

Many thaanks

[garygiles63]

Alex, thank you, will def, use that.

Many thaanks

[rollin_eng]

If you are encoding blu rays then my testing here says you would need to encode about 20-25% before you can make a decent estimate.

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[Deleted User 13735]

Most of the action is often in the last 20 minutes of a movie, making the suggested method not accurate. If you want to estimate file size, use ABR, and do the math.
Bitrate (Mbps) x Time (Sec) x .125 = File Size (MB)

[rollin_eng]

Most of the action is often in the last 20 minutes of a movie, making the suggested method not accurate.

If you look at my test results you will see that this is not the case. Do you have an example of a blu ray where this occurs?

[alex 64]

Some numbers with source file : MP4 1h30 (encoding : preset very fast 480p)

total size
size coef estimated coef. ideal
5% 54 mo 20 108 18.24
10% 107 mo 10 1070 9.12
20% 214 mo 5 1070 4.56
30% 309 mo 3.33 1030 3.04
40% 430 mo 2.5 1075 2.28
50% 544 mo 2 1088 1.82
60% 663 mo 1.66 1105 1.52
70% 763 mo 1.43 1090 1.3
80% 845 mo 1.25 1056 1.14
90% 920 mo 1.11 1022 1.01
100% 974 mo 1 974 true

WARNING: when you encode an MKV in MP4 or in MKV and that HB shows 5% of progress, you must read 10% etc ,,,

Go further.

Considering the following data:
size coef ideal
X Y
54 18.24
10 9.12 and after a regression analysis (statistical)
214 4.56 it follows that a Power function is the most precise (correlation coefficient: 0.99995)
309 3.04
430 2.28 Y = EXP(a) * ( X^b )
544 1.82
674 1.52 b = -1.001696275
763 1.30 EXP(a) = 985.6393003
845 1.14 X = size
920 1.01
974 1.00

humor "calculations made using FUGAKU calculator : power of 415.5 petaflops and 415 x 1015 operations per second"

[alex 64]

clearer

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[Deleted User 11865]

clearer

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Since you're seemingly using a fixed-width font, why not just use code blocks instead?

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[alex 64]

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Some numbers with source file : MP4 1h30 (encoding : preset very fast 480p)

                           total size
         size    coef      estimated     coef. ideal
5%       54 mo     20         1080          18.24
10%     107 mo    10         1070           9.12
20%     214 mo    5          1070           4.56
30%     309 mo    3.33       1030           3.04
40%     430 mo    2.5        1075           2.28
50%     544 mo    2          1088           1.82
60%     663 mo    1.66       1105           1.52
70%     763 mo    1.43       1090           1.3
80%     845 mo    1.25       1056           1.14
90%     920 mo    1.11       1022           1.01
100%    974 mo    1          974 true								

WARNING: when you encode an MKV in MP4 or in MKV and that HB shows 5% of progress, you must read 10% etc ,,,

Go further.

Considering the following data:

size  coef ideal 
 X       Y      final result
54     18.24      979
10      9.12      978              and after a regression analysis (statistical)
214     4.56      977              it follows that a Power function is the most precise (correlation coefficient: 0.99995)
309     3.04      976 
430     2.28      975.5               Y = EXP(a) * ( X^b ) * size
544     1.82      975
674     1.52      974.5                    b =  -1.001696275
763     1.30      974.6               EXP(a) = 985.6393003
845     1.14      974.4                    X = size
920     1.01      974.3
974     1.00      974.2

humor "calculations made using FUGAKU calculator : power of 415.5 petaflops and 415 x 1015 operations per second"

thanks RODEO