I've been an AMV viewer for a whole lot of years, and about four years ago I finally made my first (and so far only finished) AMV. It's certainly not perfect, after all it is a first AMV, but I think it's pretty decent and I'd like to share it online if I can figure this issue out!
Well, the reason it's been sitting dusty on a DVD-R for years is that I can't seem to get it down to a workable size.
The output file from Vegas, which I edited in, is an .avi file that's a whopping 2.89 GB! Any attempts to convert it to .mp4 result in getting it down to, oh, 300 or so MB, but that's a pretty ridiculous file size, too.I have tons of AMVs on my computer so I know it's possible to have a good quality video in a reasonable file size, but I'm just not sure how to go about compressing it down to the size I'd like. Mind you, this video is 720 x 480 and 4 minutes 35 seconds...it really has no good reason to be so darn massive! I would like to keep it at those dimensions and would prefer as little noticeable quality loss as possible of course. Ideally I'd like it to be somewhere under 80 MB.
Any ideas or help would be much appreciated. It would be nice to be able to share this video with other people instead of having it sit around on my hard drive forever. Apologies for asking such a silly question, but, while I get the theory of AMVs and how to make a video and all of that, the technical aspects still somewhat elude me.
