Sony HC28 camcorder video to email?

[airtaz]

My wife just purchased a Sony HC28 camcorder. She's using this to record our son's sports and send them to email via internet. Now, when she finally got it onto the computer, it was avi format over 2Gig! What should I consider doing to get this to an appropriate size to send via net? I'm thinking of divx or anything u all recommend. I know I have watche 1 1/2 hours of a movie in divx with great quality and very small.

Ideas?

Thx.

[Soopafresh]

Welcome to the world of video processing. Yep, those raw files are gonna be big.

You have many options of compressing the video. AutoGK is a very good program to convert to Divx.

The problem you're going to encounter is file size limitations with your e-mail provider. A lot of them won't let you attach a file over 8MB in size to your message. Consider uploading your videos to Google Video or similar services and just include the URL to the flash video in the e-mail message.

And welcome to videohelp

[airtaz]

Welcome to the world of video processing. Yep, those raw files are gonna be big.

You have many options of compressing the video. AutoGK is a very good program to convert to Divx.

The problem you're going to encounter is file size limitations with your e-mail provider. A lot of them won't let you attach a file over 8MB in size to your message. Consider uploading your videos to Google Video or similar services and just include the URL to the flash video in the e-mail message.

And welcome to videohelp

Thx for the fast reply

We will be sending them via something like msn or even ftp server. So the email thing isn't an issue. You mentioned raw files, she said she had an option of doing avi or mpeg. Is this RAW format?

[Soopafresh]

Terms like "Raw format" have become pretty nebulous. It could mean several things.

Think of AVI as an envelope in which you place your audio and video files. Those A/V files might be compressed with mp3 on the audio, Divx on the video - etc. Lots of things. It also could be "uncompressed" video inside the AVI - meaning an incredibly large file at the end.

SD resolution Video cameras will usually store the video in DV format - it could be an AVI, but with DV as the compressed video residing inside the file. You can find out by opening the AVI in Gspot , a useful program for determining what is in the AVI.


Hope that helps. It'll be confusing in the beginning, but you'll get the hang of it in no time

BTW, MPEG is always compressed video.

I'd suggest a few apps to help you get started:

Gspot

FScapture (a great free screen capture app in case you need to post an image to this forum)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/download.php?id=775

VirtualDub - the workhorse of video processing applications. Once again, free.

[redwudz]

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[mats.hogberg]

An easy solution would be to use Windows Movie Maker. Even DivX may be too big to send as email attachment or using msn. FTP-ing is another story.
WMM, tho prone to crashes, has different profiles (=resolutions/bitrates) for different purposes. And most Windows computers can play wmv without any further installs, in contrast to DivX/XviD. I'm not a wmv/WMM fan, but it's a really easy route.

/Mats