Emailing Video

[keninaz]

Hi, new here an not sure this is the place for my question but here goes.
My Mother who cannot travel any longer and lives in another state wants to have some video of her great grand daughter.
I send her lots of high resolution stills frequently but she would still like some videos so I purchased a Canon Vixia R20 HD camera.
We had a Flip camera before but the quality was poor and I did not like the process of uploading short videos to their website so I bought the newer camera.
I don't want to send full movies. In fact sending 30-60 seconds of video would please my Mother.
I find the software that came with the camera a little confusing to say the least.
But when I try to attach downloaded videos, regardless of what quality I shoot the videos in, I get a message that says that the attachment is too large.
Is there someone that can give me some simple instructions or advice on how to do this?
I have a new computer running an I3 processor and Windows 7 if that helps.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

How big are the clips you are trying to send? Many email services has a kinda low file size limit.

You could try shrink them with freemake video converter, convert to for example wmv and to adjust output file size click on to wmv, edit preset and change the bitrate value(lower=smaller size but also lower quality). You can also do basic cutting by clicking on the scissor.

Or upload to youtube or vimeo and make it a private video just for family. It should be in HD also.

[Cauptain]

Hi, new here an not sure this is the place for my question but here goes.
My Mother who cannot travel any longer and lives in another state wants to have some video of her great grand daughter.
I send her lots of high resolution stills frequently but she would still like some videos so I purchased a Canon Vixia R20 HD camera.
We had a Flip camera before but the quality was poor and I did not like the process of uploading short videos to their website so I bought the newer camera.
I don't want to send full movies. In fact sending 30-60 seconds of video would please my Mother.
I find the software that came with the camera a little confusing to say the least.
But when I try to attach downloaded videos, regardless of what quality I shoot the videos in, I get a message that says that the attachment is too large.
Is there someone that can give me some simple instructions or advice on how to do this?
I have a new computer running an I3 processor and Windows 7 if that helps.

Thanks

Simple. 4 pass only.

1- Create a YOUTUBE account.
2 - Upload your video files.
3 - Select PRIVATE / UNLISTED
4 - Send to mother the YT link. Only peoples with YT link will see the videos.


I have a YT "family page" using this model.



Claudio

[keninaz]

I was just looking at my email and I run Windows Live Mail and it's connected (apparently) with hotmail which they say allows 50 MB attachments. Yet 20 seconds of video which showed the file size as 30 MB would not go?

Cauptain~ wow, is it that simple? Getting older and I had noted that the software that came with the camera had a YouTube link but I thought that could be viewed by the public.
I will have to give that a try.

Thanks

[aedipuss]

windows live mail may allow 50mb but her mail is probably limited to under 10mb like most isp mail. you also have a widows live skydrive available where you could upload the 50mb videos and send her a link to it.

[keninaz]

Thanks again, it appears that this may not be as hard as I thought.
Just understanding how to do it makes a big difference.
The documentation that came with the software is not all that great.

[jman98]

I am stating the obvious, but could not just make a DVD and mail it to her via snail mail?

As far as the inability to send a 30 mb file goes, yes it could be as aedipuss suggested that your mother's email simply does not allow attachments of that size. Also please note that Hotmail and Yahoo email have had an ongoing feud for years where by default they treat anything, even just small text messages, that comes from the other as spam by default. I use my Yahoo account as my main email source and I've had several people with Hotmail tell me that my messages always end up in their spam filter until they whitelist me. I've had a similar experience on Yahoo when people send to me from Hotmail for the first time.

[keninaz]

I could not get mine to send, let alone worry about what was on here end.
All I was trying to do was upgrade to a better quality video from the Flip I got rid of.
And with the help I got here it will work well for me to post less than say a 2 minute video for them to watch at a remote site without being public to everyone else.

[p_l]

windows live mail may allow 50mb but her mail is probably limited to under 10mb like most isp mail. you also have a widows live skydrive available where you could upload the 50mb videos and send her a link to it.

I've tried several methods. WMV is a pretty good, universally playable format (well, except for Mac users) for email attachments and uploading to Skydrive.

Email attachments are really for very short clips as ISPs may allow up to 50 MB attachments to be downloaded, but only smaller files to be uploaded (e.g., 10 MB).

Skydrive bumped their limit up to 100 MB last year.

A private or unlisted youTube video can be up to 1080p if you wish and can only be seen by those with a link. It works pretty well for simple viewing by those you send it to, but the only real disadvantage is that it's not easily saved in case the other party would like to collect or archive the video on their computer, and of course they need an internet connection whenever they want to watch it.

[Ai Haibara]

WMV/Windows Media is only fully supported on a Windows system. On a Mac or Linux system, you can use VLC or an mplayer variant to play WMV (or use the Flip4Mac components on a Mac to allow playing Windows Media through Quicktime), but all versions of Windows Media still aren't supported, at this time (I think some implementations may still have incomplete support for WM3/9 and the HD versions, and certainly, no support for DRM media).

[mL999]

Edit and record your movies in whatever good quality that you choose (and that the lady is equipped to play) on to the small 8cm. blank DVDs and send them by snail mail .
We know the lady can receive e-mail so presumably she can play them on her computer . If she has a normal DVD player so much the better.
The blank DVDs cost less than a cigarette in the uk bought in 10's at internet prices. They hold 1.4 gigabytes they are small enough to send easily by mail .
They are very convenient for sending anything in digital form . regards from mike

[Cauptain]

If her mother has a netbook? My mother use only netbook + youtubed videos from all.

She lives in another city and is the easiest fast method for her to see my little son (Cauptain II)


Claudio

[videobruger]

@keninaz

And here's my 2-cent:

1) As mentioned first compress your video. You could use the free Format Factory. a How-to is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaXAJlj-l-w. Try with the settings shown below:



This will give a compressed version of your video with about 1 min/10 MB. You may try with lower bit rates and see if that's still OK and you may join several video clips together under Advanced shown on left in the picture

2) Upload the compressed file to MediaFire. It's free and allow you to upload files with a size up to 200 MB, ie about 20 min video with the above settings, and mail you mother the the link MediaFire gives you.

3) She can download the video using the link and watch it using fx. VLC.

In this manner there's no hassle with E-mail and once the videos are downloaded your Mother can have an archive independent of the internet

[DB83]

Another option would be to upload your video to www.yousendit.com

You enter your mum's email address in the box provided and she receives an email with a link to click and download the vid.

There is a limit on the size of files you can send as a free user (50 mb).

[mL999]

I have sent a highly compressed 2min48 sec MPEG-4 resolution 320x240 .The file size 18.1 Mb it went as an email attachment ... O.K. for a bit of fun but the quality is not nearly good enough to keep in your family archive.
A friend sent me 20sec. or so of his dog filmed on a mobile phone. The quality is absolute rubbish.
There are many digital 'still' cameras these days which can also make acceptable movie clips.
Remember the lady will want to play your shots many times to herself and to all her friends (? poor things?). That is why the DVD is the most suitable medium to use Always record the date on them ........ yours mike

[videobruger]

@keninaz

Just in case you would like a hands-on experience using MediaFire mentioned in my previous post here is a 2 min/16 MB video clip with a resolution of 1280x720 and a bitrate of 1000 kbps

http://www.mediafire.com/?4e4bc5arzzan9ss

[Cornucopia]

Or use dropbox and share the parameters with her. I've noticed lately that many of those sharing sites are being pulled down by US Gov. for DCMA, etc violations (incl. Mediafire, megaupload, etc). Since dropbox is Personal/private, you may not have the high bandwidth (won't be as speedy), but you also won't have ads, filesize limitations, hidden costs, other users interacting, etc.

Scott