Making file size smaller?

[LordPython]

I have a video I have shot and edited. It is currently 1.2gig in AVI format. I am wanting to post the video online, but the max filesize limit is 100meg. Can anyone give me advice on how to get this video down to under 100meg without loosing too much of the quality? Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

How long (in time) is it?

/Mats

[Bjs]

Forget how long it is , use gspot on it and post a snap of what it report's , from there you may get the answer you need .

[LordPython]

Here's a screenie

[Cornucopia]

Well, you most likely want to save that DV-AVI file to archive once edited (DVD-R, and/or back to TAPE). But you also want to go with something that is viewable on the web, in reasonable sizes. DV ain't!
So you're gonna have to export/recompress to MPEG1, or WMV9, or MP4 or similar (DivX/Xvid).
Your program is only ~5 2/3 minutes long (~350sec), so you have plenty to work with: 100MB = 800Mbits /350sec = 2.28Mbps, which is very good DVD quality for all the above except MPEG1. You would use MPEG1 only for universality, not quality (it's too old of a codec to be very efficient). So, I'd say drop the bitrate to ~750kbps, which gives you ~32MB file of still quite good quality.

Scott

[yoda313]

Also one suggestion is if you stick with divx to convert the audio to mp3. That is uncompressed pcm audio there which will really increase the file size more than you need.

I do recommend windows movie maker to output to wmv. It can do a really good job of shrinking files and making them decent. Though to get to a 100megs you'll probably have to use a much lower video resolution to make it work.

Good luck.

[LordPython]

Thanks Scott,

EDIT: Nevermind, I just imported the AVI into Adobe Premiere and re-encoded it at 320x240 with MPEG-1 and MP3 audio and got the whole thing down to 85meg.

[Cornucopia]

Glad you're happy, but that won't look as good as what I was suggesting.

Scott

[mats.hogberg]

MPEG-1 and MP3 audio

Even if that's fine, it's a very odd combination. Your average mpg1 comes with MP2 audio.

/Mats