Best format?

Lizard828 wrote on 4/26/2002, 2:21 PM

I just completed a 6 minute piece for a friend that he wants to post on his website. The finished file is an .avi, and I used the DV NTSC compression codec. It's about 1.46GB. My problem now is getting him the video. It's obviously too big to email, and we even left AOL Instant Messenger on all night trying to transfer the file through IM. After several hours, he only got the first 10 seconds. I was thinking of burning the file to CD-R, but they only hold 650MB. I'd like to avoid any degredation in quality, so I'd rather not transfer it to tape and then somehow get it on his computer. Does anyone have any suggestions? Am I compressing it the wrong way? Is an .avi file the best format for the internet? Thanks!!

Comments

jpresley wrote on 4/26/2002, 2:35 PM

Use a program like splitit to divide your file into the segments
you prefer. The file is cut into multiple segments of a size of your
chosing then re-assemblied at the other end with the same program.

jpresley

jetdv wrote on 4/26/2002, 3:12 PM

If he wants to post it on his website, it will need to be MUCH smaller anyway. Why not go ahead and export it into a smaller format (10 meg or less) which will easily fit on a CD and is much more suitable for placement on the web?

BillyBoy wrote on 4/26/2002, 4:59 PM

AVI is probably the WORST choice for the Internet because of the bloated file size. Try RM, the player is free to anyone and a quick download and WWE easily renders to it. I would offer a low and high resolution selection. While RM offers excellent compression, the quality suffers at low bitrate. With more and more people having some form of broadband having a offering at fairly high bitrate makes sense.

Cheesehole wrote on 4/26/2002, 6:02 PM

render out a Windows Media V8 or RealMedia version of your video by first dropping your final DV AVI file on the timeline and then rendering.

experiment with those two formats. don't try to render to 720x480 or anything huge like that. if your target is internet, think more like 320x240 or smaller.