Reducing the file size

[tvrchim]

I want to upload a video but everywhere i try it says exceeded size max 100 meg but my video is 122 meg, how can i reduce the size?.

Thanks chaps.

[slinky]

Re-encode at a lower resolution or frame rate to reduce size?

What have you encoded it as?

slinky

[tvrchim]

you`ve lost me, i recorded it today, on my small sanyo video recorder, then uploaded it to my PC, like iv done a hundred times before. It plays ok on the PC through Real Player, but this one i wanted to put onto P/H and Youtube, that`s when i got the problems. If you could explain in retard language i might understand thanks.
As you might of gathered im not the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to computers.

Steve.

[road2ruin]

Ok. Sounds like you have just recorded it into an uncompressed AVI format. If this is the case the clip must only be a few minutes long as 122MB of uncompressed footage is not a lot. From here there are a number of ways to go but basically you have to change the format from uncompressed to compressed and you will save a vast amount. This task is easy if you have a program like NERO or one of the ULEAD DVD or Video packages. There are loads of other software programs out there that do it windows even has its own called Moviemaker built into XP. Anyway what you will need to do is load such a program up and start to create a new file. The program at this point might as you what output format you require (end product) if possible choose MPEG2 as this is the most compatable and has DVD quality picture. Wimdows Movie maker does not have an MPEG2 output from what I remember so choose MPEG1 still very compatible but quality not so good. Some programs do not ask this until the end. Next you will need to insert your file you recored to your disk. Once this is done all you need to click is finish or encode or whatever it prompts you. It will take a while depending on the speed of your machine but the resulting file will be around a fith of the original size.

There are many other ways of doing this using programs like TPMPEG which is free to download but you really need to know what you are doing first.

[Trooper2]

Use 7zip or winzip to compress it into a zip file, then upload it. When it is downloaded by the end user it just needs to be unzipped (decompressed) with 7zip, Etc.

www.7-zip.org/

You can also use Hjsplit to break the file in two and upload it, then when both halves are downloaded by the end user, they just use Hjsplit to rejoin the halves.

www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/

It's easier and you won't loose video quality like with the other options. I frequent a forum where members post links to allot of videos for download and this is how they get around Internet file host's upload limits.

[tvrchim]

Thanks guys, i will try this when i get home tonight. road2ruin you are right its only about 5 min long, all this hassle for five bloody minuets, but thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Steve.

[FourWheelDrift]

How big (screen size) is it? If it's for a web download and you have XP open up Windows Movie maker, import the clip you have and then save it off as a WMV, you can alter the size of the output and you can see how the size (in MB) of the output effects the encoding and physical size of the viewed video clip (800x600, 640x400 or 320x240). If it's a web viewed video it need only be as big as the normal video is played. If not just make it as big as you need, 15mb perhaps so people can download it at a reasonably quick rate.

If you even want to make it smaller as a download just use Winzip or WinRAR to compress it further, but it's unlikely to get any smaller than 14mb if it's a 15mb WMV.