Shearer9 Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I have this 16 minute video that I shot on a MiniDV camera that is over 3 GB when uncompressed. I ran it through the stock compression that came with the camera and it pared it down to 175 MB, but it looks like shite. Does anyone have any recommendations about programs I could use to compress the initial file so it would still look good? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Bee Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I'd encode it using this: http://www.virtualdub.org/ It's free but not exactly the most user friendly piece of software, you might need to have a play around before you get it right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Use a piece of video editing software like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premier. Think you can trail with them, if you cant be arsed then you could try Movie Maker, im not saying it will be any good, but you can compress it down, who knows, it might turn out alright. Just out of curiosity, 16 minutes and 3GB? What extension is it? Try converting to avi or mp4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearer9 Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 It's an .avi, the thing is it doesn't really even look that great, I've definitely seen 30 min TV shows that are like 300 MB and look better. I've been using the Panasonic software that came with the camera to get the video off the camera, maybe that's a factor, it's clearly not that great although it's an obvious step up on Movie Maker. Maybe I'll try to use Adobe Premier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Uncompressed .AVIs are huge. Have a play around turning into .MPGs of various quality. With .mpg you usually get a decent balance of quality/file size. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacko Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 .avi is just a video container format. Size and quality are determined by the codec used within the .avi container. MPEG is both a format and a family of codecs. Afraid I've never played with a MiniDV camera myself, but Virtual Dub that Chrissy Bee recommended should do the trick. Try .avi format and XviD codec. You'll probably never get close to the quality of TV shows unless you have a particularly good camera: they're usually encoded from a much higher-quality source. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted April 5, 2009 Share Posted April 5, 2009 http://download.cnet.com/Any-Video-Converter/3000-2194_4-10661456.html?tag=mncol Just tried this. Seems to work a treat. Really simple to use, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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