Converting in adobe premiere pro CS5

Hi everyone,

I'm new on pond5 ( for a month now ) and I've used several things to convert my MTS files to MOV. First I tried it with adobe premiere pro, but the size of the files are extremely big.
So now i use a special convert program, and this gives good quality but a very small file size...

I think that when people look at the file size and see a really small file, they think the quality can't be that good.

Now my question:

Does anyone know a good video codec and format and all settings...

When i did convert with premiere pro, pond5 said it was multimedia instead of hd1080, but when you click on the video it says it's HD1080 format.
Does anyone know how i can solve this problem?

Thank you

A 20 second video at 1920x1080 HD clip can easily be 600Mb. Normal is 300-500Mb so you just have to get used to the huge file sizes, it's a different world than photos. Before anyone can help ya need to tell us what camera you are using, is it interlaced or Progressive., what size 1080 or 720 or SD, what version of PP. Not really enough info to help now.

@wheijnen you can use either H264 or photo jpeg to convert your MTS clips. Photo jpeg clips will be larger depending on how many seconds your clips are then they would be using H264. If you are using Quick Time Pro to convert your clips make sure the size is set at 1920 x 1080. There is a size pull down in QT Pro where you can go to custom setting at the bottom of the pull down and type in either 1920 x 1080 or leave it in it's native fomat of 1440 x 1080.

There is also a good and fast utility called MPEGStreamclip - a free application you can get it from http://www.squared5.com/ Good luck!