Tanks4me05 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Ok, since most of my videos are compressed to much higher than the 40 MB limit, what video compression program (s) do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goliath513 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&partNumber=MSSWIC2 This can compress a 10 min video down to about 20mb. This also works great for compressing videos for the iPod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I can tell you that DivX has been very good with compressions, and sometimes it has been thanks to its calculator thingy. Feed it your time and how much space you'd like it to squeeze your vid into, and it will give you an exact estimate... What I mean by this is that it will give you something exactly according to if every frame was changing and that the audio was of a certain format. However, since the vid can change somewhat (effects and/or what not), even if you say 10 mins in 100 MB, it can pass this a little bit, but can also be a MB or 2 under. Either way, I'd say DivX is the best if you want to have some control over your file size limits. /Edward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdude5 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I've always used Windows Movie Maker to compress my videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanks4me05 Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 Edward, how much can DivX potentially compress the video? Let's say I want to get a 9 minute video (8 minutes and 36 seconds to be exact) to 40 megs - compressing it to around 1/3 of its current size, which is a little over 130 MB. Also, how do I use the system? This is what I do: First I try to use the Codec program, but the Ciodec Program can only compress DivX files, so I use the converter. I drag and drop my .AVI video into the converter but it says that the video contains an invalid stream. But I downloaded it from a site I uploaded it to. (I deleted the original file to save space.) So, do I have to actually buy the program for it to work, or am I not using this program correctly? So in other words: is there any way I can compress an approximately 131 MB video to TPR's 40 MB video size limit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Ok, you seem to be using some strange program here. Or you are lacking Codecs. Either way, the only programs I know of and that work for alot of cases are Ulead Video Studio, VirtualDub, and Fast Movie Processor (those are the only ones I use, 2 last are free). Though, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Windows Movie Maker have the posibility to Export films to AVI format(s)? Actually, I think the best question to ask here is: What Video Editing program are you using now? Once I've got a better idea of your equipment I can start directing you in better directions. /Edward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnage Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Though, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Windows Movie Maker have the posibility to Export films to AVI format(s)? My experience with WMM is that it pretty much only exports in WMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjaco Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 ^ You'd be wrong. It can do AVI too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 He's probably got a Home Edition, or the new Media Center Patch where all MS players only play Windows Certified Files (ei wmv & wma). My condolences. /Edward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanks4me05 Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 I'm trying VirtualDub, and there's a crap load of codecs available. I don't want to spend what few precious gigs of hard disk space I have, so could you tell me which codec can compress files the best out of the ones listed? -Cinepak Codedc by Radius -DivX® 6.8 Codec (1 Logical CPU) -DivX® 6.8 YV12 Decoder -Intel® video 5.10 -Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50 -Intel Indeo® Video R3.2 -Intel Indeo® Video 4.5 -Intel IYUV codec -Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 -Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2 (This is what I used for my vids - the 3 minute vids are usually around 80 MB) -Microsoft RLE -Microsoft Video 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 -DivX® 6.8 Codec (1 Logical CPU) This one is the best. Just configure so that you get as good a quality as you can get within 40MB. -Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2 This one you can configure and bring down the Quality (keyframes large number, Quality low %, Bitrate low), but it will look crappy. Oh, and do you ever compress your Audio any? Instead of full PCM, try MPEG-3, or Layer-3, or what else you've got there (DivX Calculator assumes that you have compressed your audio to MP3 or some such). /Edward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjaco Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 He's probably got a Home Edition, or the new Media Center Patch where all MS players only play Windows Certified Files (ei wmv & wma). My condolences. /Edward That's odd, I have Media Center, and have no issues. Chalk another one up to MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanks4me05 Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 ^^ Is there a way that I can edit out part of the video? (Chop off the second half.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 There should be something among your controls that says Select Range, Cut, Crop, Mark Start/End or even a scissors icon. /Edward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DenDen Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 An awesome utility that does all of these, and more, is called MediaCoder, a free, open source file conversion utility. (There's a couple different versions, but I use the complete version that has both audio and video utilities.) I've been using it for about 4 months now, and love it. The only drawback for some of you, is that it requires the latest FireFox web browser to be installed, since it uses the FF engine for it's interface. http://www.mediacoderhq.com/ This utility has saved my life a few times, I highly recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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