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					Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn  Now with widescreen hdvshot videos at a 1440 x 1080 frame size or even halved to a  720 x 540 frame size the file sizes are getting HUGE and the encoding times ridiculously lengthy.  I started using 4300 Kbps video bitrate and 1900 Kbps video bitrate for those two frame sizes respectively and the result is a 30 minute wmv movie ends up over 1 Gb in file size and takes half a day to encode even on a Pentium D dual core pc!
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 Do you understand what 'pixel aspect ratio' means? 
You are shooting in 16:9, but 1440/1080 != 1.7777 (16:9). 
We encode our 1280x720 WMV's at 3.7Mbps. Each UCV update contains ~ 0.75 to 1GB of video. If you want high quality videos, you have to have  larger bitrates (therefore, larger files). There is no way around the file size issue without sacrificing quality.