video size

[revlution08]

okay i want to post a video on the forum but its too big. how to i resize it. its about 650MB. Can someone help me. thanks in advance.

[Worley]

What video editing software are you using?

[bluegrass]

okay i want to post a video on the forum but its too big. how to i resize it. its about 650MB. Can someone help me. thanks in advance.

There are about a hundred ways to sundown on how to reduce the size of a video file. I'll throw out a few.

1. Save the file in two or three segments.
2. Cut the length (seconds) of the file.
3. Change the file format to mov or wmv if it isn't already.
4. Save it at a lower resolution.
5. Change it to black & white. Just kidding.
6. If the purpose is to show us an unadulterated HDV file, than you have no option other than shortening how long in time the file is.

7. Here is another great option. Sign up with a provider like 1and1.com for Internet space. If you are going to wind up wanting to show a lot of your video to friends and family and us here on this forum hopefully, you can get a lot of online storage and build yourself a simple webspace area to do it for $4 or $5 a month. I'm talking about 120gig of online space for only $4.99 a month including a few domain registrations. Anyone messin' with video as a hobby, would be happy with the flexablitly that this avenue provides. I have no association with 1and1 other than being a happy customer of theres.

I forget how many meg a seconds worth of raw HDV is but it's a bunch. As a rule I capture my raw HDV file in approximately 20 minute segments so I can save them to a DVD to bring back online for intermittent editing. Twenty minutes creates about a 4 gig file. I've made the mistake more than once of not setting the time length when I'm capturing a full tape to my hard drive and wind up with a 12 gig file that I can't save off to DVD. When you have a lot of projects you want to start and stop the editing process, you can fill up your hard drive pretty fast.

[revlution08]

im using final cut pro,

i tried doing a quicktime conversion. and change the setting to broadband high and now its saying its 10.9MB in size. im guessing it worked.

[Murrelet]

Well I just managed a couple of quick flights, as the wind has finally started to co-operate. I shot all footage in HDV 60i.

AVI is 10.8GB at HDV 60i, mov is 110GB !!! at Default Template (no compression), and mpeg2 is 476 MB at DVD NTSC. I gotta figure this out.

As well my 1st running of the mpeg2 was all distorted bands, with close views of my gliders risers in checkerboard squares as they passed the cam (watched this as it converted to mpeg2 in the preview window). Very weird. I'll d/l a copy of VLC soon as I book off here. Got the VLC and it works great, no lines or checkerboards. The waves down below do moire patterns though.

First time really playing with a rough copy of HDV so I can see I'm way behind the eight ball on this phase.