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Compression advice
Trying to compress some video files without much success. I used Zipit to try to compress some ~10Gb .MOV files. The “compressed” files were less than 10% smaller. Not much help at all. Any advice on procedures / apps to get some real scrunching here?
Many thanks
Bruce
Photographer / Motion Graphics Artist
Vision Risingvimeo.com/BodhiBruce
visionrising.comDance Without Reason
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3 Replies
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With video files you’re best option is to bring them into media encoder and create H264 versions which will be a mere fraction of the original size.
I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
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Zipping Video files will never shrink them much and is not a good idea.
Are you Zipping them for archival purposes, if so archive them exactly as they are.
If you compress them to H.264’s and need them later on you will be working with degraded versions of the originals.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
Take a moment to place a value on them and then maybe add two more.
Hard Drives are now stupidly cheap. A RE-SHOOT AND YOUR TIME AREN\’T.\” -
Dave
These are files of the video of a performance that I am sending to the artist. When I realized how huge they were, I began looking for a way to compress them. Now, thanks to the Forum, I realize that all I needed to do is what I always do when I am moving large files for review and approval. I transcode them to H.264. Duh!
Bruce
Photographer / Motion Graphics Artist
Vision Risingvimeo.com/BodhiBruce
visionrising.comDance Without Reason
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