James Quigley Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Ok, first off I bought a new Mini DV camera last week, which is awesome! BUT......After taking a few practice clips I noticed that when transfered to my computer an 18sec clip is 100MB, yes Mega Bytes!So the question is, how the hell do I compress that file size without destroying the quality of it?I'm guessing I'm an idiot and that there is probably a simple solution, but that wont stop some of you guy's slating me will it.So even 1 helpful comment would be appreciated.Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 From my limited experience... you have it super high quality when your editing it and transfering it off your cam to your pc, then you compress it once your done editing. Some of my vids ended up as 1gb + when i transfered, but in movie maker (god forbid anyone still uses this) you can set what quality it takes the clips from off the cam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Quigley Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 From my limited experience... you have it super high quality when your editing it and transfering it off your cam to your pc, then you compress it once your done editing. Some of my vids ended up as 1gb + when i transfered, but in movie maker (god forbid anyone still uses this) you can set what quality it takes the clips from off the cam.I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro, and I want to keep the good quality. And I want to know how to compress it, I've just put a song and 40sec of clips in and made the movie, came out at around 800MB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 edit it all at full DV quality then export movie.. as full DV ... then use some other program that gives you some choices to compress....divX is a pretty good method for encoding ... use virtualdub or for easy peasy one setting stuff just get divX converterbut you could always go .wmv with (curse n spit) movie makeror some quicktime balls .mov (more cursing and spitting)or summut else mpeg I or II or whatever.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom tom Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 changing format normally changes size, for example a video clip or mpeg into mp4 will compress it by about half.tom tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Quigley Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Sorry guys I was being an idiot, it only took me a few minutes actually looking to find out that there's an encoder built in to adobe premiere! got that 800MB file down to 24MB, sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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