Alpinfox Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 I've shot a few videos with my Canon sd800 and would like to upload them to You Tube but they are too large. I need to shrink them down. Anybody have any recommendations? The current file I'm working on is .avi, 1min and 4sec, 640X480 pixels, 30fps, 101mb, and 1622kbps. I'm using Windows XP. You Tube's max upload size is 100mb, recommended 320X240 pixels, MPEG4 format, 30fps. Is there any decent freeware that will do what I want? I tried "Squared 5" program that Olympia Climber recommended, but I got nowhere with it. Quote
Gary_Yngve Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 What about Windows Movie Maker? Also Quicktime Pro will do the conversions. A version ago, all one had to do was generate a quicktime pro key to enter in to unlock the full version (google for it)... dunno if it's still true. Quote
olyclimber Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 HHAHAHAHAHAH MY TEST MONKEY. I HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY TRIED THAT PROGRAM, MUST BE THE REASON IT IS FREE, LOLZER! Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 19, 2007 Author Posted July 19, 2007 Good news: I was able to shrink it down using Windows Movie Maker. Bad News: WMM split the file into two pieces, one 34secs long, the other 29secs long. Is there some way to avoid that? Quote
JayB Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 If it's a one-off edit that you're looking for you're probably better off just handing it over to someone with editing software installed on their PC and asking them to do it for you, borrowing their machine for a bit and doing the editing, etc. Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 19, 2007 Author Posted July 19, 2007 I'd like to learn how to do it myself. Quote
ken4ord Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 UR NOT QUALIFIED! He might not be qualified, but I think he has enough time these days where a rock monkey like him could possibly learn. Quote
Alpinfox Posted July 19, 2007 Author Posted July 19, 2007 (edited) WOOOHOOO! I figured it out! So I got Quicktime Pro and used the File>Export>Mpeg4 function to shrink it down. That worked OK, but I couldn't figure out how to add music, stills, text, etc, but I did figure out how to do that with Windows Movie Maker.Anyway, here is a video of a training flight I took with the Port Angeles USCG helo rescue team yesterday. These are the guys who rescued the climber with the broken leg off the summit of South Brother in the Olympics a few weeks back. Made with Windows Movie Maker: dyO1W74ySNs edit: Here are a couple videos of them rescuing folks off of the South Brother: Sd3S9nsWsik -agdGYP8c_o Edited July 20, 2007 by Alpinfox Quote
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