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Newbie needs Help – Posting Video to Website
I have a website where I want to post a video. I have just recorded it, so it is still in an .avi format and its size is currently at 385 megs and is about 1 minute 40 seconds long.
1) Is there a particular way this video should be posted to the site for people to see? What I mean is that should it load all at once before being seen or play as it is being loaded? How do I do this with Vegas?
2) How should I convert the video to reduce its file size, what format should I use, and is there a certain physical size the video should be because I want it to play in a window on the site, not in its own player.
3) Are there any tips you can lend me OR are there any tutorials about how to place a video on a website?
Thanks
Brett
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2 Replies
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Render it to WMV or use some other program to convert the AVI to Flash. Either of those should work fine for you.
Edward Troxel
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Hey Brett, ya like Ed says you have to convert to a size that’s suitable for the Internet. There’s no way a 385 meg .AVI will work, it will take them forever to download it. I’ve had great success with exporting my Vegas projects to Windows Media Video V9 (.WMV) Template (512kbps) It’s size looks like this https://www.robjames.net/Pirate.wmv Lately I’ve been working with Particle Illusions to make Wormholes and the like, I rendered those out at Windows Media Video V9 (.WMV) Template (3Mbps) It comes out full size, as seen here https://www.robjames.net/Warp.wmv but the file size is miniscule compared to the .AVI. You should easily be able to reduce the size of your 385 megs file to 16 megs or so. So much easier and quicker to download, and as you can see the quality is very high. So try those two formats and see if you like them. Hope this helps a bit.
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