25 Second video at 19mb. Need to reduce it!

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As per thread title, have a 25 second clip off my camera and it's 19mb :eek:

I want to get it <4mb, would appreciate any recommend apps/guides to do so. Cheers :)
 
Download divx encoder&decoder and use either divx's own encoder (no experiance with this) or use a program called virtualdub to encode it for you in a codec like xvid or divx...
 
Sounds like your camera is using either a very bad compression method or not compressing it at all.

Encode it into DivX and it should shrink a fair bit. :)

[Edit] I use VirtualDub to do this, highly recommended. Free and easy to use.
 
Tute said:
Sounds like your camera is using either a very bad compression method or not compressing it at all.

Encode it into DivX and it should shrink a fair bit. :)

[Edit] I use VirtualDub to do this, highly recommended. Free and easy to use.
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I've been trying to use VritualDub and it's been problems, the audio displays an error, so I got Lame MP3 from Sourceforge and I can't seem to do anything with it :confused:

I'd be greatful if you could help. The camera doesn't compress at all.

I installed the ATI avivo mentioned and I can locate the parental control it keeps reffering to :confused:

:(
 
Tute said:
Sounds like your camera is using either a very bad compression method or not compressing it at all.
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It's not actually that bad, dv cameras use 78MB for 25 seconds of video! Could just be a good quality high bitrate video as it's 6Mb/s I'd guess mpeg2, ideally you want as high a bitrate and as little compression as possible when recording a video.

Anyway I also reccomend virtual dub.
 
http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html - Download SUPER and install

Run SUPER and drag and drop your video into the program window.

Choose Output Container as AVI, and choose your codec and bitrates, etc.

Right click in SUPER and select 'Specify the Output Folder...' and press Encode once the folder has been chosen.

Job done! :cool:
 
I highly recommend that Super program Basmic has posted, it's free and does absolutly everything, much better than some programs I've actually paid for.

If you're putting the video on the net, WMV is a good format to compress to.

Think you'll want the video bit rate at about 1500kbps and the audio bit rate at about 128kbps

edit/ another good format is a mov h.264/avc file, use the same bit rate as above but the picture quality is a bit better
 
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Another vote for the inbuilt windows movie maker here, i've always been suprised at how good it is, lots of features an you should have it already.

You can def export it to a certain size too :)
 
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