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Sony DSLR-A200
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 02/11/2007 06:34:58 PM · #1
Hi folks
im new to the photography scene and i was playing with the movie feature on my camera i made a 30 sec. movie and wanted to email it to friends however the movie is 18 megs is thwere a way to compress this movie down to a reasonable size for sending through email ?
right now the file is a ****.mov file can it be saved as an mpeg or avi ??
any help will be great
thx in advance.
scwalsh
Nikon D60
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
 02/11/2007 06:38:25 PM · #2
Its already mad compressed yeah u can transcode it into another format an AVI will only be bigger unless maybe u do it with a DivX codec.

Honestly 18 Megs is pretty small compared to DV compressed video which would be 110 Megs for 30 seconds.

My camera shoots a 6 Megapixel Raw image at about 7 Megs per file your video is less then the space for 3 pictures from my camera lmao. BTW cutting sound out of video reduces files ALOT!

Message edited by author 2007-02-11 18:39:14.
Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 02/11/2007 06:40:05 PM · #3
If you are using Windows XP you can import into Windows Movie Maker and then export it from there as a .wmv. It will give you the choice of how many mb you want it to be and then compress it according to that.
Sony DSLR-A200
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 02/11/2007 06:43:31 PM · #4
thanks for the advise i will try that out and see what happenes
scwalsh
Canon EOS-30D
Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Canon
 02/11/2007 07:37:41 PM · #5
I agree with RainMotorsports, you can't do much better than that without loosing quality, but DivX is probably your best bet. Their codec is very cheap (some versions are free) and it works seamlessly with Quicktime Pro (which, if you don't have it already, is well worth the $30). You can load the .mov into Quicktime and then export it as a DivX compressed .avi at any size you want.
Sony DSLR-A200
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 02/11/2007 08:18:15 PM · #6
i just tried to use the Windows Movie Maker and was able to compress the file down to 3 megs.
the quality did diminish alittle but not to bad for what i wanted to have
again thanks for all your help.
scwalsh
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