How do I reduce the MEGS on my video from my digital camera?

[prettycat]

Hi,

I have just recently got back from a concert where I took a video of about 6 minutes of a band.
I have a youtube account and haven't encountered problems uploading videos until now.
When trying to upload the video to my youtube account,
I received a message telling me there were too many MEGS (I don't know what they are)
So I've been trying to figure out how to reduce them.

I have uploaded the video and all others from my Kodak Easy Share camera onto my hard drive and they are all in my Kodak Easy Share album.

I was told to use Movie Maker because I have Windows XP and tried that but when I searched in the folder I usually find my videos in (using that program) the folder appeared empty so I couldn't select my video to play around with.
I then tried Downloading DivX (trial version) to play around with it and the same thing happened with the Easy Share's folder appearing empty. I know it's not empty, I've checked. I would really like to figure this out.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[edDV]

Use Windows Movie Maker to capture the file from the camcorder. How did you do it last time?

[prettycat]

That's what i tried to do :S
but then the folder appeared empty and it's not, all the files are still in there.
i just downloaded Dr. Divx and am trying to figure things out with that now...

thanks for your tip though.

[edDV]

I have uploaded the video and all others from my Kodak Easy Share camera onto my hard drive and they are all in my Kodak Easy Share album.

Oh I get it. A digital camera.

Does the file end in .mov or .avi ?
How are you watching it?
How big is it?

[prettycat]

the file is a .mov file
it's 219810 KB
and no I'm not watching it at the moment.

[edDV]

the file is a .mov file
it's 219810 KB
and no I'm not watching it at the moment.

What plays it?
What is YouTube's file size limit?

Anyway, you have MJPEG and need to convert it into what YouTube wants.

[guns1inger]

Youtube wants (ideally)

320 x 240, Xvid with mp3 audio, less than 100MB total size

[prettycat]

hmm.. well i'm encoding it to DivX with Dr. DivX right right now.. do you think that might help?

[guns1inger]

So long as you have set it up correctly, it should be fine.

AutoGK is another good tool for this.

[prettycat]

It worked! Yay DivX!
Thanks guys for your help