I'm 80% complete on my 'Spirited Away/Vanessa Carlton' video

[uruseiranma]

Greetings all!

first post on here, but after this summer, i saw Spirited Away and just had to get my hands on an all-region DVD of it. I've been promoting it like no tomorrow, and when I heard Vanessa Carlton's song "Ordinary Day," images swirled in my head and I sacrificed much needed portfolio time to work on capturing this with the help of my roommate. It is possibly the first "Spirited Away" music video created and I want to post it, but I am saddled wit the problem of trying to shrink a 200mb quicktime file down to a more managable size, and find someone to host it.

can anyone help me on this? I would love to do a music video for "Kiki's Delivery Service," using Michelle Brach's "You Set Me Free" as well.

I am an animation student so I had a very visual style in mind for it, nothing quite like 'MoreThanToast's' "Whisper of the Heart" music video.

There were a number of ways to go, but in the end I focused on 15-20% fantasy elements of the film, and the large portion focused on the lead characters Chihiro & Haku. 8)

[otakulk]

Sure! here are a few tips on compressing videos:

1 - export from premiere in Mirosoft AVI format. Use a high-quality codec (I recomend the Morgan MJPEG Codec v3, very high quality, fast) and no compression on the audio (premeire is slow enough ). This will produce a fairly large file, but don't worry, you will be compressing it soon.

2 - Get VirtualDub. its a free open source video program that is excellent for reprocessing, post proccessing, etc.

3 - Get the Divx Codec. This is a high quality high compression codec based on the MPEG-4 algorythm. This will be used to compress your video. Its very good. I recomend finding a copy ogf Divx version 4. their latest is 5, but I think its to buggy....

4 - Get a good mp3 codec. I recomend the Radium mp3 codec. The MP3 codec will be used to compress your audio.

5 - Open you video in Virtual Dub. Set the video compression to the Divx Codec (use whatever bitrate you want), and set the audio compression to the MP3 codec. save the new file.

There you go! you have now compressed that insanley large file to a good size on broadband and something possible on 56k.

If this explaination is to vague, complicated, whatever, check out some of the guides here, and on www.divx-digest.com. Reading is good.

if you still can't quite get it (or are lazy like me), e-mail me back and maybe I can help you out .