Darren65

Thank you. However, I'm not sure what 'PAL was 392' refers to or how to access that; although that's my ignorance, apologies.

Thank you so much for looking at this for me. However, I have just exported this same file with these settings below and it has resulted in a file 810.4 MB !

Preset: Custom. Compressor: H264. Default Quality. Lossless export: auto detect. Resolution: 1280x720. Variable Frame rate (Max 25fps)

It says estimated file size is 411.05. But, as I say, the resulting export was approx twice that size!

Using the mpeg4 compressor it estimates 164.42MB and the resulting export is 252.6MB. (quality not as good as H264 though)

Both times big difference in estimate and actual size. And something is clearly going amiss in the exporting, as 810MB is too large. I'm using the non-commercial 8.60 version.

Thank you. The link is here (dropbox). Hoping you are able to access the files. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c2h972b1m92fm2g/AACAZTID9eV-KbPxtnTWzvcya?dl=0

With this i originally created a file with H264 that was around 800MB! I'm sure it can be reduced.

Thank you, will do.

Do you want it sent as a vpj project (with attachments? Otherwise, I guess it's not playable by you?) and if so could you tell me where to upload it to? 

Thank you so much for your reply. I clearly didn't scroll down far enough! Much appreciated. Interesting though, with even using these settings that it results in a file that's over 500MB. That still seems very large for a 14 minute video (with a few images added). As I've said, using the mpeg4 compressor does reduce the size, but the quality is nowhere near as good as using H264.

Thank you, although when I click on video quality/bitrate it just gives me the dropdown options of high quality down to very low quality. The bitrate is actually 1.08 mbit/s but I can't seem to be able to input that number.

Thank you, I will do.

Thank you. Yes you are right. I can export it. It's only that .avi doesn't want to 'play' on my Mac without a 3rd party convertor, so i can't check the quality of it.  It tries to convert and then gives up!

Many thanks, although I should have clarified that I use a macbook which doesn't seem to automatically recognise .avi format. I will edit my original post.

I love using VideoPad, it is so intuitive, but my problems are with exporting to mp4. I would like advice about which specific settings to use. 
I normally use resolution: 1280x720 
Compressor: mpeg
Video quality: default
Lossless export: autodetect
VRF: Max 29.970

But it is not as clear a resolution as I would like. But if I use a higher setting it often creates a file that is nearly 900MB ! 

I create videos that combine still images with some video, but usually no more than 12 minutes long.

If I use H264 instead of mpeg it triples the size of the file. Could you advice me on export settings that  create a good quality result but without resulting in such a huge file?

Just to clarify I use a Macbook, so use macOS High Sierra, rather than Windows.