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omnis_audis - Aug 17, 2007 3:32:53 pm PDT #2425 of 25496
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vw bug - Aug 18, 2007 1:12:03 pm PDT #2426 of 25496
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Is there an easy/free way to resave digital video files at a lower quality. I'm trying to put a video on youtube, taken from my brother's camera, and it's a little too big. Ideas? I suck at this stuff, and I'm trying to help my brother figure it out before I leave.
Juliebird - Aug 18, 2007 1:18:12 pm PDT #2427 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Windows XP and Vista both come standard with Windows Movie Maker, and I'll assume that Macs have some basic video editor as well.
You can try opening the video file up in the editor and simply publish/render it, and that should automatically compress it some.
WMM also has an "import from video camera function".
vw bug - Aug 18, 2007 1:21:22 pm PDT #2428 of 25496
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Huh. It won't open. Apparenlty, .mov is not supported by Windows Movie Maker.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2007 1:51:58 pm PDT #2429 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Odd question: I think my current old-style TV is 19". Would that seem about the same size as a 26" wide-screen TV?
I'm kind of looking at this one [link] In what seems to be a pattern for me, I had the impression that the flat-screen TVs were like $1000, but of course my current TV isn't so big to begin with, so it's not like I need to replace it with something enormous.
Juliebird - Aug 18, 2007 1:52:02 pm PDT #2430 of 25496
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
vw bug, since I've never imported from a video camera, I can only speculate. Either there could be a plug-in or codec out there the WMM needs (check out the online help function for WMM), or you could try visiting videohelp.com and searching for a freeware converter.
This is a list of software that I got when I searched "mov to wmv": [link]
I swear WMM always has some backwards bug.
Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2007 2:55:29 pm PDT #2431 of 25496
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I think my current old-style TV is 19". Would that seem about the same size as a 26" wide-screen TV?
Using our friend the Pythagorean Theorem, a 26" widescreen TV has a size of about 22.7" x 12.7", while a 19" regular TV has a size of about 15.2" x 11.4".
In other words, the screen is bigger because it's wider (duh). But if you were going to show a regular 4x3 picture on your widesreen TV with black sidebars, the picture would still be a little bit bigger than your old TV.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2007 6:31:29 pm PDT #2432 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Thanks, Tom! That was what I figured, using the mathematical formula of General Impression + Making It Up. Possibly I'm going to PCRichard tomorrow. Too bad that link says it's 43 lbs, which is too heavy to carry, I think.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2007 6:49:26 pm PDT #2433 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For anyone in a similar but not identical situation, I just came across this CNET page which tells you the effective diagonal for watching widescreen on a normal TV or 4:3 on a widescreen TV. [link]
esse - Aug 18, 2007 10:15:10 pm PDT #2434 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hey, the ipod video can't pump video via 3.55mm to composite, can it?