I make Aerospace instructional videos on high-tech industrial portable 3D metrology systems for shop floor operators. A mouth full I know. I am using PD 12 and regularly produce videos with the H.264 AVC codec, then change the suffix from wmv to m2ts so that I can embed the videos in a chm help file and have them play inside of Windows Media Center. The WMV Player can't really locate files easily inside of the chm so I changed the default player on my wmv's to WMV Center and they then play fine.. as long as users do the same on their computers. I change the suffix because the chm file doesn't support it, nothing more. I often have to change the chm file suffix inorder to transmit over Lync becuase it thinks it might contain a virus. I change it to txt and ask the recipient to change it back to chm.

I have a 8;53;15 video, at 1280x720, 2600kbps, 23fs & 48khz, 256kbps audio my file size is 1,762,370 KB. Too large for my chm to port out. VERY GOOD, but won't open in the wmv player called out in the chm file.

I changed settings from those above to a total bit rate of 3000kbps and the file size was reduced to 228,228 KB. VERY GOOD, and opens in wmv player.

I made one last file, everything the same again but at 1700kbps as one of the suggestions here. It made a file size of 77,511 KB. UNUSABLE. I also edited the Profile.ini to this. The editing didn't stay though. Reopening PD12 brings the defaults back into play.

I just went through the numbers I posted above on the bit rates to make sure I had them right becuase I am not using comas in them. It can get confusing and you can go cross-eyed looking at all the zeros.

I am including labeled screen grabs from the same location in the finished video. The 1700kbps bit rate file also had a time slip of about 5 sec from the other two so if I had included talking heads I would have to resync audio for them... but the video is so poor that I don't really think anyone would notice it.