upload sizes

[keith123]

i have just uploaded 10 mintutes of video using DVIO, however the output file size is 935mb....this is terribly big in my eyes. Is there any other software that can use to get this video, keep the same quality as DVIO does but have the file size a lot lot smaller?

[Doggiedaddy]

First of all, what is the file extension in question.

[bugster]

That actually seems small to me, DV is about 13Gb/hour so 10 mins should be over 2Gigs!!??!!

An no, You can't make it smaller and keep the quality. The only way to make it smaller is to encode on the fly to a more compressed format. This will lose quality, but Windows Movie Maker can do this if you want and MS wmv format.

[keith123]

First of all, what is the file extension in question.

what? the video is on my cam corder, i have just been uploading it from there

[ebenton]

You don't say what exactly you are "uploading". The last time I captured some video from a VHS tape onto my hard drive, the resulting AVI file took over 5 Gigabytes of space for about 48 minutes of VHS video.
So your 935 MB for 10 minutes seems about right for that.
When you encode it for DVD or VCD for burning, the resulting file size will be a lot smaller. My 5 GB went down to about 2 GB after encoding.
If you don't have the drive space to handle files of this size, you should get a bigger hard drive.

[keith123]

That actually seems small to me, DV is about 13Gb/hour so 10 mins should be over 2Gigs!!??!!

yeah, i was wrong there was 10 mins on the cam corder but i must have stopped it at 4, lol, 935mb for 4 mins, ha. surely there must be a better way?

[keith123]

i got three replies and 1 edit when i posted last, lol, whilst i was posting, so it got a bit confusing!

i used windows movie maker and the files size was only 7.75mb for 10 minutes, however the quality was crap compared to DVIO, suppose this is because wmm captured the video.

[bugster]

i have just uploaded 10 mintutes of video using DVIO

You don't say what exactly you are "uploading". .

DVIO is used for capturing or uploading DV format video. I know this wasn't stated explicitly by ebenton, but careful reading can often illicit further information.

[Gazorgan]

That's a normal file size for a capture. After you compress/encode it, it will be smaller. How small depends on what codec/format you choose, as well as the resolution.

You can't quote a WMV file size without knowing the resolution and framerate and quality level desired. WMV isn't any smaller than DivX/XviD/RM for the same resolution/quality settings (they are all MPEG4 variants).

[ZippyP.]

the quality was crap compared to DVIO, suppose this is because wmm captured the video.

DVIO is not really "capturing" the video, merely transferring it to your HD from your camera preserving the footage as is.

WMM is transferring and the encoding it into a lower quality format, that's your problem.

Transfer the footage and then choose an output format carefully to keep the quality.