Motor Video File Sizes?

Dangerous · 6 Jan 2007 at 19:54

Okay got a 8-9 minute WRC Rally video and at first attempt the video comes out @ 150mb now I'm thinking I could get away with making upto 200mb-250mb video but do you think thats too much?

DRZ · 6 Jan 2007 at 19:57

YES

There is NO NEED for the videos to be even a tenth of that size, even for a decent resolution.

"Illegal" HD TV rips of 40 minute shows from the states come in at 350Mb and the quality is reputed to be excellent.

DivX or XviD it up and get it down to 20Mb tops and people will still be happy. Or happier.

divine` · 6 Jan 2007 at 19:57

Considering the most i get out of this **** poor excuse for an 8Mb connection is about 40KB/s the smaller the better!

silversurfer · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:02

Make a proper quality one then run that through windows movie maker for a very compat .wmv version and post both. The .wmv will suffice most of the time, its the high action parts that suffer mostly. Something about 768kbps works for me mostly and that'd make it about 10 meg I think

Dangerous · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:04

Res is 1440*1080 and the bit rate is 2500kps.

Seeing what the 3500kps comes out at now

silversurfer · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:09

lol that is HD allright

I'm going to have to build my conroe rig just to play that properly. Lots of people should appreciate the lower quality version imo

divine` · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:13

isn't 1440x1080 a touch overkill considering most people will be running 1280 horizontal res?

I know for a fact my PC wouldn't even play that file, so I wouldn't even bother trying to download it.

andi · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:15

Shrink it then?

Its a video of you lot on a trip to Wales, do we really need it in HD? 1/3rd of that res would be more than adequete.

F355 · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:17

720p should be more than good enough. 1080 seems a bit of overkill to be honest.

TomO · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:49

Dangerous said:
Okay got a 8-9 minute WRC Rally video and at first attempt the video comes out @ 150mb now I'm thinking I could get away with making upto 200mb-250mb video but do you think thats too much?

i think whatever gets the finished product out fastest is best!

Malt_Vinegar · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:54

I would say a trivial video like that should be no more than 25meg at the very most!!

[TW]Fox · 6 Jan 2007 at 20:55

No need for home video footage to be any more than 30mb at the very most.

silversurfer · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:04

Just worked out thats 39 million pixels a second, my poor pc

What res did your camera record it at, surely its less or is it analogue so debatable

Dangerous · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:05

silversurfer said:
Just worked out thats 39 million pixels a second, my poor pc What res did your camera record it at, surely its less or is it analogue so debatable

That res

1440*1080 - I shall do 2 versions 1080p and 720p

divine` · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:06

silversurfer said:
Just worked out thats 39 million pixels a second, my poor pc What res did your camera record it at, surely its less or is it analogue so debatable

Fairly sure his cam records at full 1080 HD res

silversurfer · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:08

divine_madness said:
Fairly sure his cam records at full 1080 HD res

Impressive :cool:

Dangerous · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:16

haha tried to play the 150mb version of my media pc - XP2500 and played okay but few jerks so will lower the res and increase the quailty

Hawk Tuah · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:22

Is this the kind of video that realy requires that kind of quality :confused:

3500kbps

Try nearer 1000.

Lopéz · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:43

No need for it to be that size, it's just gross over indulgence. A film on DVD is what, 1-4 GB and they are often in excess of 2 hours!

For an 8 minute video I'd say anywhere between 20mb (Youtube/Google video stuff) and 80mb (High quality downloads to keep) would be appropriate.

Dangerous · 6 Jan 2007 at 21:44

Lopéz said:
No need for it to be that size, it's just gross over indulgence. A film on DVD is what, 1-4 GB and they are often in excess of 2 hours!

Of course this will be bigger its better quailty than DVD.