Making good quality small file sizes

[Guest]

Hi all, Happy New Year.

Here's my quandry;

I've got a movie which was originally in MOV format, I'm trying to be able
to share it with a friend who can only run Quicktime on her PC. I've exported
the file ( not through MM2) as a Quick Time Movie, but it's come out at 15.8
MB. I've got to try to save it as a smaller file size than that. Seems silly
because I can save it as a WMV and it's only about 3Mb. I also exported it as
an AVI but that was ridiculous, came out as 60MB. I can only email a maximum
of 16Mb per email, and I don't want to break up the file, so any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Bev x

 

[John Inzer]

Hi all, Happy New Year.

Here's my quandry;

I've got a movie which was originally in MOV format, I'm
trying to be able to share it with a friend who can only
run Quicktime on her PC. I've exported the file ( not
through MM2) as a Quick Time Movie, but it's come out at
15.8 MB. I've got to try to save it as a smaller file
size than that. Seems silly because I can save it as a
WMV and it's only about 3Mb. I also exported it as an AVI
but that was ridiculous, came out as 60MB. I can only
email a maximum of 16Mb per email, and I don't want to
break up the file, so any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Many thanks

Bev x

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Sorry , but your message is confusing.

?? .mov is Quicktime.

?? 15.8 MB is less than 16 MB

Anyway...maybe one of following
services would be useful:

"YouSendIt"
Transfer files up tp 1 GB:
http://s10.yousendit.com/

"Dropload"
Transfer files up to 100MBs:
www.dropload.com

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
How to ask a newsgroup question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Guest]

Sorry , but your message is confusing.

?? .mov is Quicktime.

Sorry, I got in a pickle with that, i actually meant it's an MPEG file. The
file names are MOV then a number, so that's what I was getting confused with.

?? 15.8 MB is less than 16 MB

Not according to AOL, lol. I try to send anything at just under 16 MB, AOL
puts up an error telling me it can't be sent because it exceeds AOL's maximum
file size of 16Mb. I'm guessing it's because of the email itself taking up
space too, but it should only be a matter of a few kb.

Anyway...maybe one of following
services would be useful:

"YouSendIt"
Transfer files up tp 1 GB:
http://s10.yousendit.com/

"Dropload"
Transfer files up to 100MBs:
www.dropload.com

Happy new year!

Bev x

 

[Wojo]

Well since the videos are MPEG Movie Maker probably won't work with them as
it seldom ever does.
You do have the option of converting them to AVI so you can import them into
Movie Maker.
After that during the "Save Movie Wizard" you have an option called "Best
fit to file size:" where you can specify the maximum size of the file and
Movie Maker will lower the quality settings to save the movie to that
filesize if possible. But you will almost definitely lose quality unless you
just drop it to like 14 or 15mb.
To convert see this site:
http://www.videohelp.com/convert
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

Well since the videos are MPEG Movie Maker probably won't work with them as
it seldom ever does.

Really? I've not had much trouble before now, just recently it's started
playing up a bit and adding only the sound and no picture, but up til then,
no problems.

You do have the option of converting them to AVI so you can import them into
Movie Maker.
After that during the "Save Movie Wizard" you have an option called "Best
fit to file size:" where you can specify the maximum size of the file and
Movie Maker will lower the quality settings to save the movie to that
filesize if possible. But you will almost definitely lose quality unless you
just drop it to like 14 or 15mb.
To convert see this site:
http://www.videohelp.com/convert
-Wojo
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Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Bev x

 

[Wojo]

I know some other people have reported the same thing and it has always been
kind of strange since there are many more that have nothing but problems
with them. I know they rarely worked properly for me; that being the reason
I don't even try them anymore. I do know that they apparently worked better
with older versions of Movie Maker though, are you using WMM 2.1?