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Title: video compression
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 13, 2005, 09:13:23 pm: ok, heres the next question, first it was webhost, then about web creation, now videos =P

so anyway, i have a digital camera that can also do videos with sound, by default it puts them in AVI format and their size isnt too bad its like 40MB for 2 minutes which is about 1 PopN Music song. They come out decent, but i have this program that came with the camera that can adjust brightness/contrast, add text , etc. and i used it to make my video brighter and add a little caption in the beginning and i resaved it, and it came out at 275MB !!
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: lcddream on January 13, 2005, 09:39:40 pm: tmpg is a great piece of software, which can create mpeg files for you, and is highly configurable

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

and thats the free version

edit: also videohelp.com is a must for learning key strategies for encoding video
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: mnm1200 on January 13, 2005, 09:44:49 pm: XVID is an awesome codec and virtual dub is a good free conversion program (does editing too but I've never tried it that way).

Try taking that 275MB file and XVID encoding it through virtual dub.
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: mnm1200 on January 13, 2005, 09:46:59 pm: Quote from: lcddream on January 13, 2005, 09:39:40 pm
tmpg is a great piece of software, which can create mpeg files for you, and is highly configurable

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

and thats the free version

edit: also videohelp.com is a must for learning key strategies for encoding video

MPEG is OK, but it's compression rates are horrible. It's mainly for encoding so you can burn to VCD/SVCD/DVD. At 33MB, you won't be able to make out any detail at all in MPEG/MPEG2
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 13, 2005, 09:49:55 pm: Cool video... although the first 10 seconds are gibberish, then it clears up.

U r a PopN Music Freak, lol.
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 13, 2005, 10:26:30 pm: im using video dub, i select Xvid codec, what do i actually click to make it start compressing?

nevermind i figured it out, it came out 22MB but now whenever i try to open the file it gives me an explorer error... damn i didnt know video compression was so complicated
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: mnm1200 on January 13, 2005, 10:35:41 pm: Video dub or virtual dub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ ?
Did you get the latest stable build of XVID?
Are you using a player that supports XVID? (I use BSplayer)
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 13, 2005, 10:43:26 pm: i DLed BSplayer, works good. thanks for the help

using DivX (fast motion) compression the 275MB brightness/contrast edited video comes out at 33MB. woot =)

now to go shoot some better videos
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 13, 2005, 11:01:06 pm: pr0n? ;D
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: mnm1200 on January 13, 2005, 11:31:18 pm: Quote from: HarumaN on January 13, 2005, 11:01:06 pm
pr0n? ;D

Hahahaha! ;D
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 13, 2005, 11:42:41 pm: Quote from: HarumaN on January 13, 2005, 11:01:06 pm
pr0n?
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: lucindrea on January 14, 2005, 01:12:52 am: i wonder how meny clicked the link to see if the source pic was differnt hehe
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: Sephroth57 on January 14, 2005, 08:40:47 am: lol
Title: Re: video compression
Post by: SNAAKE on January 14, 2005, 11:19:35 am: I would drink from those anyday !! :D