video compression

[Sephroth57]

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 !!

[lcddream]

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

[mnm1200]

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.

[mnm1200]

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

[HaRuMaN]

Cool video...  although the first 10 seconds are gibberish, then it clears up.

U r a PopN Music Freak, lol.

[Sephroth57]

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

[mnm1200]

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)

[Sephroth57]

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

[HaRuMaN]

pr0n? 

[mnm1200]

pr0n? 

Hahahaha! 

[Sephroth57]

pr0n?

[lucindrea]

i wonder how meny clicked the link to see if the source pic was differnt hehe

[Sephroth57]

lol

[SNAAKE]

I would drink from those anyday !!