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> From: "Hartung, Kris" <kris.hartung@hp.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Subject: RE: Everyday digest / Loop Videos / How to > get file size down! > > I was given the master on Super VHS, Not the best quality, you already lost one generation. >which I paid to have converted to DVD. I ripped the DVD to the best >quality mpeg (DVD editing quality), MPEG is already a compressed format, so you're compressing it again and most likely it's going down hill from there. Plus, MPEG is one track, audio and video mixed together. You want to be able to compress video and audio separately. It'll eventually be one file, but don't start with an MPEG. I'm not familiar with this "DVD editing quality" that you mention. >then converted that to a series of >Windows Media (wmv) videos. The >quality of these wmv videos is >acceptable...no overt choppiness in >the sound. movement is relatively >smooth, etc, but the files are still >large. What did you use to convert to WMV? >A 10 min. 25 second video of >mine is 15MB and the size is 208 x >160. > However, is there a media format that will get the file size down even > further without loosing quality? > I've tried Real Audio...no luck. The worst! >I hear Sorensen Squeeze 4 can do this but I'm too cheap to buy it. Yeah, expensive...but that's the way to go. Get your movie uncompressed onto a DVD as data not MPEG. So it's not compressed to begin with. The video should contain two tracks, one video and one audio (stereo, mono whatever) I'm familiar with using Quicktime. So you would recieve a high quality QT movie on DVD, import into Sorenson, choose a frame size, 320x240, 240x180, etc. and finally experiment with data rates. Sorenson has something called "Variable Bit Rate" It does two passes on your movie, first is analyzing and second is compressing. You could also consider a final MPEG so all platforms could play it. Main thing is to start out with a highest quality, a master, and compress from there. Time consuming, but it works. HTH, Fred > http://www.sorensonstore.com/product_info.php?url=http://www.sorensonstore.com/products/sq4cswin.html It sounds like the > ticket though. > > ...looking for other options, or I just suck it up > and accept a 15MB > file size for a 10 minute video. > > Kris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com