O/T - Compressing video files for emailing
Submitted: Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:42
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CraigB
Hi Everyone,
I have a short 15 second video file that I wish to email.
Because it was taken in high definition it is still 15 meg after zipping, which obviously is still too large to email.
Can someone please advise a novice almost illiterate computer person such as myself an easy way to compress the file so it can be emailed.
Many thanks
Craig
Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:56
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:56
Put it on You Tube then email the link ;)
Chere sKev
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Follow Up By: CraigB - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:09
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:09
Thanks,
But as mentioned I'm somewhat computer illiterate. I have no idea on how to post on YouTube.
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Follow Up By: Member - Mark G Gulmarrad - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37
CraigB
go to the you tube site and create an account(
the steps are easy to do) and when you are done hit the upload button on the top of your screen and upload your video from your files.
cheers
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Reply By: Fab72 - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:37
Open it with Windows Movie Maker then save it and dictate how large you want the file eg 4mg.
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Follow Up By: CraigB - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:56
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:56
Thanks Fab72,
That seemed simple enough to understand.
I went to import the file but guess what - My video file is is mpeg format which appears not compatible with Movie Maker
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Reply By: Member - Jason B (NSW) - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 13:00
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 13:00
Hi Craig
Firstly open the video in the software that came with your camera. Go up the top to the file or edit tab and search for a command such as "convert to" or "modify"or "export" etc. Select one of these and it should give you the option to save the video in different file formats. Make sure you have the original file saved elsewhere as it will modify the file.
You may also just be able to go to file/save as, and choose a different file type.
What you want to do is save the file as a WMV for email, this is one of the smallest file sizes and the quality does suffer a bit Alternatively save it as an MPEG 2 file it will be bigger than a WMV and the quality will be better.
Hope this helps.
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Follow Up By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 13:46
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 13:46
not meaning to hijack the thread............but similar problem.......
my video saves as a .mov file......the software does not have the file/save as option..so how do you convert to the preferred .wmv format?
thanks
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Follow Up By: Member - John D, Wandong (Vic) - Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 16:30
Thursday, Feb 03, 2011 at 16:30
You could also try YouTube Downloader, can be downloaded free from the following site...
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
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Follow Up By: kevmac....(WA) - Friday, Feb 04, 2011 at 22:55
Friday, Feb 04, 2011 at 22:55
nerd here,
plenty of free audio & / or video file conversion proprams...............google " free video conversion program".................................mind u still a lot to learn out there too
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