how to resize a video? (TR Korecky?)

Bluevoodu

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dang man....

the last video I made (of tempest 2000) which was a couple minutes long..... it was 550-600 megs large.

How do I size that down?

It is some weird format that is from my ATI All in wonder pro 9700 video card.

†B†V† :hat
 
I emailed you some information as to video resizing.  Not sure what program you used to capture the video, since I've never played with an AIW card.  Hopefully what I sent you will help.

Just for the info here though, what you copied to the hard disk is uncompressed, highest quality possible digital video.  You'll need to compress it with a video encoder to drastically reduce filesizes.  There's a program I use on my computer, called Fraps, that can record video of the computer game you're playing, as well as display the frames per second in one of the four corners.  http://www.fraps.com is the website for it and http://www.fraps.com/faq.htm is the portion of the site that describes a bit more about how to take the uncompressed video and compress it for (slightly lower quality but) DRASTIC filesize drop.
They tell you to use a program called VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org) to compress the videos.  They have step-by-step instructions on the Fraps FAQ site that I have linked to above.  I personally recommend the MPEG4 version 2 encoder, as it gives pretty high quality video/audio at the smallest filesizes that I have found (DivX, XviD, etc.)
 
XviD isn't too bad, although you still need a codec. I still say go with MPEG4, as with my experiences with DivX and XviD have been that I got worse video/audio quality with much higher filesizes.
 
trkorecky said:
XviD isn't too bad, although you still need a codec. I still say go with MPEG4, as with my experiences with DivX and XviD have been that I got worse video/audio quality with much higher filesizes.

those ARE mpeg4 codecs, you need to do 2pass to get best quality.
 
tmaxxer said:
those ARE mpeg4 codecs, you need to do 2pass to get best quality.
Even still, DivX is worse than the standard Adobe encoding that I use. Adobe managed MUCH higher quality at MUCH lower filesizes.
 
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