1.5 gig to 300mb for website–Can this be done?

[Randall Raymond]

It sounds like you have to shorten the movie and lower the variable bit rates. Are they taking 10 or 15 of these files and making one DVD for presentation at a meeting? That’s what it sounds like.

You mention a website in your title. Why? If it’s for the web, you certainly don’t want to use Mpeg2.

[Dave Petteruto]

This is a high school recruiting website that college coaches can go to and watch video of the different players that have submitted video to the site. I was informed that the website people wanted me to send them an mpeg file (no more than 300mb) of the game film. The film really can’t be shortened because there’s really nothing that can be cut, it’s one play after another with all the inbetween stuff cut out. Sop I’m really not sure what to give them at this point.

[Randall Raymond]

Did they put a time limit on it? What format are the other movies in at the site? Windows Media? Quicktime? Flash?

If they are doing the encoding, encode you mPEG2 to their window size, that will help get the file size down.

[Dave Petteruto]

Unfortunatly I do not have any of this information. Also I can’t log onto the site without a member password to even ask these questions. I will wait until the student football player is out of school then have him give me his password so I can get on the site to try and figure some of this out.

Thanks for taking your time to try to help me out.

Dave P.

[Terry Esslinger]

First – has anyone checked out that this is a legitimate site. In other words is it costing you or the athlete any money to have it posted?? Do ylou know that coaches actually view this site or is it just PR from the site?

Assuming the site is on the up and up – does your player play offense or defense. By just using the plays he is in you can usually cut down the size considerably.

Sounds strange asking for a MPEG2 file (as that is basically a DVD delivery format rather than a web delivery)

[Dave Petteruto]

From what I see everthing looks legitimate with the site. A couple of coaches have already contacted the player with info they got from the site. I’m thinking some information got mixed up going through different individuals before it got to me. My player plays offense & defense so they want the whole game film. It’s never easy!!!

[Jason Harbaugh]

Sounds like they are wanting mpeg1 not mpeg2. Still an odd request since wmv can get you a much better picture at a lower bitrate and filesize.

If you still have problems with filesize you may need to go to a smaller image size as others have suggested. Render it out at 320×240.

I would contact them again and see exactly what they want or don’t want. I’ve been in similar situations where it seems like they have the least technical person giving out the technical requests and they end up asking for the wrong thing, or confusing terminology.