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I'm finally getting around to producing some original videos for a Clips4Sale store and am having trouble exporting videos with a high quality and small file size like the kind I've seen from established porn studios.

To give you an example I've downloaded many 20 minute MP4 HD videos (1920x1080) from several porn studios that are around 500 to 600 MB in size, but when I try to export my HD MP4 video the size is often 2 or 3 times larger. I use Adobe Premiere to edit on a PC and Media Encoder to export the MP4's. I've tried several of the AME H.264 pre-sets like YouTube HD, Vimeo HD, etc. and these give me the super large file sizes. I also tried adjusting the bitrate, and this does produce a smaller size but the quality seems to suffer.

It looks like most porn studios know the "secret formula" for outputting great looking MP4 videos with minimal file sizes so I'm hoping someone here knows this and can help me out.

I read online that Handbrake might be a better solution than AME so is this what porn editors/producers use? What format do they output their master video file as before bringing it into Handbrake?

Someone else mentioned Sorenson Squeeze Pro which is not super expensive at $200, but it would be nice if I could solve this issue with something I already own like AME or is free like Handbrake.

Hoping some porn video editors or producers see this and can help a newbie out. Thanks!