silly noob (me) havin a prob

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:14 pm

ok im prolly doin sumthin stupid but my vid was about 25 mb then as i saw i had to convert it to mpeg but now its 114 mb and limit is 100 mb so anyone wana help me out? would be greatly appreciated

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:21 pm

Why'd you "have to" convert it to MPEG?

What format was it in originally?

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:23 pm

What was your video when you started, exactly? (what format)

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:27 pm

was wmv and in the sticky at the top it mentions that i shouldn't use wmv rather use mpeg so i decided to follow that but it quadrupled the size should i just convert it back?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:32 pm

<i>Do not convert it back.</i> Just use the original.

Every conversion from one lossy format to another loses quality, so you want to make as few of them as possible.

Better idea: if you can, go back into Windows Movie Maker and re-export the movie as a DV AVI, then compress it to something smaller afterwards; a guide for such an export can be found <a href="/guides/avtech/wmm2export.html">here</a> (and then read the parts on improving compressibility, resizing, and finally compressing for distribution).

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:32 pm

What resolution, as well? Is the audio compressed?

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:50 pm

res was 640x480 and no the audio wasnt compressed

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:08 pm

just tried the re-export and im 10 mb higher than b4 its now an mpg1, 640x480

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:30 pm

ack triple post but i went and downloaded the compressor and codec i followed the directions so now i have a 1.10 gig video file maybe i dont see how this works but i need it smaller

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:50 pm

First of all, I wouldn't recommend making a 640x480 MPEG-1 file (I've rarely run across MPEG-1 files with large dimensions that didn't look like crap). IMO, if you make an MPEG-1, just go for VCD spec, which TMPGEnc can do through it's wizard. If you want it compressed better at 640x480, you can go for XviD, but be prepared to do some AVISynth tweaking to retain quality.

If you don't care about quality (or if you get the AVISynth filters in line and want a small filesize), just make sure the bitrate doesn't go over about 2000kbps.