Compression Question

[Matt Larson]

2 suggestions:

Use “MPEG-4 Broadband – High” in Quicktime Pro. Great quality, small file size but relitively small amount of people will be able to view it without having to download something.

Sorenson Video 3 in Quicktime Pro. Select “Export: Movie to Quicktime Movie” and click the Option tab. Good codec and if people are going to view ANY kind of Quicktime file, odds are they’ll be able to view that one.

For both, a file size of 320 x 240 will easily be under 10 MB, you might even try going up to 480 x 360

[Don Days]

Thanks for the reply, I tried the Sorenson 320 x 240 and I got a 55MB file…I can get it down to 10 if I set Video quality to least but thats not going to work…I may have to go with Windows Media File.

[Mike Clasby]

You might try Windows Media Encoder:

https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

It’s free. There is a little learning curve, but I too a 720×480 down to 480×360 (both 29.97, 90 sec long down to 6.5 MB (506 kbps) from a 1.2 GB Uncompressed avi. Try the “DVD quality 1 Mbps” or “VHS quality 250 kbps” (about 2 steps into encoder), then modify from there as need be. If the file comes out too big, click the “Properties” on the tool bar, then the “Compression” tab, then “Edit” button, and change the codec, or click on the tab that says how many “_____ Kbps” (only other tab on top), there you can directly change the video and audio bitrate, the fps, and the video size. With a little trial and error, depending on you last results, you get down to where you want to go pretty easily. Also in properties go to “Output” tab and change the name of the output file.

WMEncoder is 2 pass variable bitrate, and though some people are crazy about the “soft” look at low bitrates, I like it.Anyway, it might be worth a try for you.

[Don Days]

I’ll give it a go!
Thanks!