compression

NerdRock814 wrote on 3/3/2004, 1:57 PM
I captured video from another computer onto my own. It's a 5 minute music video that I filmed and made the mistake of editing on microsoft movie maker. My problem is, that when it saved the file as an AVI the file is 1gb in size. How can I compress the video and make it smaller? I want to put it on a website for general download.

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Jsnkc wrote on 3/3/2004, 1:59 PM
Depends on what you want the final file size to be, if it needs to be viewable on Mac and PC or just one of them, also if you want seperate streams for dialup and broadband.
I normally go with a wmv and mov files in broadband and dialup just so everyone can view them. Vegas has templates for all of these.
busterkeaton wrote on 3/3/2004, 2:17 PM
NerdRock,

What kind of nerd rock are you into?

I don't if they qualify as nerd-rock, but Fountains of Wayne's Little Red Light is rocking my world right now. I just had share that.
NerdRock814 wrote on 3/5/2004, 11:00 AM
1.Jsnkc, If I save it as a wmv file will it automatically make it smaller? Or do I have to do something different to compress the file?

2. busterkeaton...I've been a huge Weezer fan since they came out with their first CD. My user name comes from a song called "Angry Nerd Rock" by the Ataris. It's on their "Blue Skies and Broken Hearts, Next 12 Exits" album. I'm also digging FOW. Good stuff.
riredale wrote on 3/5/2004, 11:23 AM
Nerd, you can use the wmv format to keep the file size down. Just go ahead and experiment with some of the template sizes in Vegas.

The wmv9 format is very close to the leading edge of what is possible these days.

WMV can deliver video at many different rates, but you would probably want something in the range of 512Kb/sec. This will produce a file that is about 4MB for each minute of video.
cosmo wrote on 3/5/2004, 11:31 AM
I like wmv a lot. Go here and watch the rectify video. That'll give you an idea for how fast it streams and the quality. I rendered that in Vegas last week at 1000k.
busterkeaton wrote on 3/5/2004, 12:10 PM
Nerdrock,

With WMV, you can create files from as big as DV files down to files that are 28K per second compared to DV's 3,500K per second.

So yes you can get the files much smaller. The 28K file will not look the same of course. You can take a 30 second section of your video and test out the different templates to find what fits your needs. Video with a lot of motion does not compress as well as more static motion. Dissolves compress worse than wipes. In general the more pixels that stay the same from frame to frame, the better your quality of your compressed video.