Best way to compress large video files

How do i compress large video files so they dont take upso much space on my imac.

If you want to retain the quality you don't.
What format are they in now?

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I just got an OWC Mercury Pro external Bluray burner that came bundled with Roxio Toast 11 Titanium. I'm editing with
FCP6 as part of FCS2 and my version of Compressor is 3.0.5 so no "Share to Bluray" template is part
of the default options.
The default Compressor options are:
DVCProHD 720p24 (the footage was shot and edited using this codec)
HD DVD H.264 60 minutes
HD uncompressed 8-bit or 10-bit
I've also considered exporting a Quicktime .MOV file and letting Toast do the compressing.
Thanks for your help!

I feared you might come back and mention juddering. Is this more noticeable when panning?
Are you observing this from your Bluray burner into your Mac, or through a Bluray Player into a TV?
If from Bluray Player/TV then you may have to select the Motion Interpolation mode on your TV.
From Wikipedia
Names of motion enhancement technologies
The commercial name given to motion interpolation technology varies across manufacturers, as does its implementation.
Hitachi – Reel120[2]
Insignia – DCM Plus, for Digital Clear Motion 120 Hz, or Insignia Motion 120Hz
Kogan Technologies – MotionMax 100 Hz,[3] 200 Hz
LG – TruMotion 120 Hz, 240 Hz, 480 Hz
AOC – Motion Boost 120 Hz
Bose - VideoWave III 120 Hz (Not named)
Loewe – Digital Movie Mode (DMM)[4]
Mitsubishi – Smooth 120 Hz
Panasonic – Intelligent Frame Creation (IFC) 24p Smooth Film (24p material only)
Philips – HD Digital Natural Motion,Perfect Motion Rate[5]
Samsung – Auto Motion Plus 120 Hz,[6] 240 Hz, Clear Motion Rate 100 Hz, 200 ,HZ 400 , 500 , 600 , 800 (PAL video system), Clear Motion Rate 120 , 240 , 480 , 600 , 720 , 960 (NTSC video system)
Sharp – Fine Motion Enhanced,[7] AquoMotion 240 Hz,[8] AquoMotion Pro
Sony – MotionFlow 100 Hz, 100 Hz PRO (XBR series, Australia), 120 Hz, 200 Hz, 240 Hz, 400 , 480 , 800 , 960 .[9][10]
Toshiba – ClearScan 120 Hz, 240 Hz
Vizio – SmoothMotion [11]
Sceptre – MEMC (Motion Estimation/Motion Compensation)
I play around with HDV which is Interlaced , you are dealing with Progressive.
If I maintain the workflow as Interlaced then I do not get judder for Bluray via Toast, irrespective of Motion Interpolation ON or OFF.
If I export/Share in a Progressive mode , say 1080P AIC, then the only way to stop judder is to select Motion Interpolation on the TV.
Also I find that Progressive gives a slight grainy texture to the video which may be what some call 'FILM LIKE"
but I am not a fan of it's appearance.
As I maintain Interlacing in all that I do then I do not have to worry about what my TV is set to and more importantly nor that of any friends that I happen to do Discs for.(not very often)
I have also played around in ensuring that I am judder free for any DVDs that I do.
The following give me judder free DVD for TV set to Motion Interpolation OFF .
DV interlaced into iDVD
HDV interlaced into iMovie (converted into AIC on import) Shared as AIC 1080i (size 1920x 1080 HD) then into Compressor-DVD Best quality and then into Toast for burning DVD.
I can of course use HDV in iMovie but the export used for use in iDVD will give me judder if the TV Motion Interpolation is set to OFF but no judder if set to ON. And, strangely, exactly the same for iMovie HD 6 .
Is it possible that the majority of people who are satisfied with their iDVD videos have their Motion Interpolation set to ON and those that are not satisfied have their Motion Interpolation set to OFF ?
Are you able to experiment with any Interlaced footage? Can your camcorder be set to record Interlaced.If so then you may be able to establish whether or not the issue is down to Interlaced versus Progressive.
Not trying to rub salt in the wound,( but trying to give you encouragement ) but it is possible to produce really good quality DVDs and Bluray.
Would be interested to know how you get on.

Best way to share large video files between 2 macs

My partner in NY is trying to send me over 10 GB of video to edit. We are currently doing it over AIM/ichat.
Is there a better way to do this? As we keep losing the connection, probably due to aim. Can he turn his mac into an FTP or something

This is easily done over AFP. He should:
1) Put the files in /Users/hisaccount/Public
2) Enable File Sharing (System Preferences -> Sharing)
3) Note his IP address (System Preferences -> Network) and e-mail the IP address to you
Once he has done that, you should:
1) Under Finder's Go menu, select Connect to Server
2) Enter afp://11.22.33.44 (or whatever his IP address is)
3) Browse his public folder for the files
4) Drag them to your Desktop or desired location to make your own copy of them.
10GB is a lot of data to send over the internet. Depending on the upload speed of his internet connection it might just be faster to burn a few DVDs and send them to you by express mail.

Hey All, what is the best file compression app to compress large video file on my Mac Book Pro?

Hey All, do you recommend compressor 4 or what is the best file compression app to compress large video file on my Mac Book Pro?

X,
Thanks for checking in. The anwser to your questions are below.
Where is the material coming from?
These are MP4 files from my Canon vixia HFR40
What software are you using to edit the material?
I am using iMOVIE 9.0.9
What do you want to do with the files after compression? I want to email I need to have the file be smaller than 100MB to send.
I am an actor and I video tape my auditions and send them to my agent so I need Highest Quality HD files that have small file sizes, no more than 100MB. The scenes are like 1-5 Mins long in most cases. Thanks for your help.

What is best way dealing with large tiff file in OSX Lion?

I'm working with large tiff file (engineering drawing), but preview couldnt handle (unresponsive) this situation.
What is best way dealing with large tiff file in OSX Lion? (Viewing only or simple editing)
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Use an iPad and this app http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=400600005&mt=8

Best way to copy large VM files from one drive to another?

Hi all, I am wondering what the best and fastest way there is to copy a large VM file from one drive to another (external drive to internal drive). Should the .pvm folder (in my case with Parallels) be zipped first? The files I need to copy range from 50 to 70gb. thx for any insight! ps. Even Bombich admits it's difficult for CCC to do...not clear why, but it does slow a full clone down to a crawl. I also have Chronosync at my disposal, but suspect the same is true there as well. Cheers!
coocoo

I don't think it matters much which way you do the job. I use Parallels to compress by drives on a regular basis. If you want to copy a dynamic VM, which can grow to just about any size as required, to another drive you will use about the same amount of time zipping the VM - transfering the VM - unzipping the VM, as you would just moving the VM.
I've moved my VM files to a second partition that does not get cloned to my bootable backup that I create with SuperDuper. I've excluded my entire VM folder from Time Machine and just make zipped backups for each system after any large Service Pack Updates from Microsoft, or any intricate program installations. These get copied to a second partition on my Time Machine drive manually.
My VM's sizes are kept under control by using common Documents-Movies-Music folders for the Mac and the VM's. My VM's do not have the data files the programs use, they are on my Mac and get backed up every hour with Time Machine.
Reinstalling a VM just means deleting the broken copy, unzipping my latest backup, and putting into the same folder that Parallels knows to use. The data files are always accessible, even if they were created after my latest VM backup.

Compressing large video files in QT Pro

Hello,
I've been recording videos with my Kodak Zi8 camera set to 1080p, as I figured it's easier to scale down later than to scale up. As a result, I have some .MOV files that are 4 GB for 90 minutes long and consist of 1920 x 1080 video in H.264 format with AAC audio. What is the best way to edit such a video so that it fits within Vimeo's 2 GB upload limit? I have QuickTime Pro but no other commercial video package (though am open to affordable alternatives). I know video is an intensive process and would like to be able to convert at least one video a day.
Thank you,
-Ken

Thanks for the suggestions, all.
I guess what I'm asking is: what is the best process by which to shrink this file? Should I transcode it into a different format or compression method? If so, which one? Or should I scale down the resolution? If so, by how much? When I previously tried scaling it down, it appeared that it would take 24 hours to convert the entire video. Is that an accurate estimate?
-Ken

Compressing large video files - help!

I have about 114GB of video files on my hard drive, and with only 250GB of HD I was wondering how I can compress the files and not lose quality. Is there any software out there, preferably free, or is using the built-in compression option the best?

Hi gaz_reid;
It is now time for you to decide to either get rid of some files or get a more disk space with an external hard drive or larger internal drive.
Allan

Whats the best way to save large folders/files on multiple dvds?

hi,
A quick question about the best way to save to dvd(4.7gb disc) a large number of folders/files.I've got about 30-40gb of stuff to save from mp3 sample files through to logic audio files.I already have them saved to another HD but i just want to be extra safe and have another back up.In the past i've just saved it disc by disc creating each folder as i go dragging the appropriate folder across.I was just wondering whether there was an easier way than this.May be an application where i can drag all the files and it will sort and save everything for me much like the way itunes now saves/backups files.
thanks
darren

Hi darrenz,
if you have Toast you can save your stuff using Toast. There's a great option within Toast. You need to select the Data tab and choose "Mac only". Then just drag all the stuff you want to burn to the Toast window and it will automatically ask for another DVD until everything is burnt. After that all your DVDs will have a Toast Restore app on them. It lets you select what you want to restore and will tell you which DVDs to insert. Here's a screenshot I found by googling: http://www.macworld.com/images/content/2005/08/19/toast7restore.jpg
Have fun!
Björn

What is the best program for splitting large video files (for archiving)?

I have just finished a project and I want to back up everything to DVD-R discs, including all my capture files and completed movies exported from Final Cut. Some of the files are 5 or 6 Gb, too large for one DVD-R disc.
I tried downloading a program called MacHacha, and did a test on one file, splitting it into 3 segments and then joining it back together with the same program. The resulting file should have been a duplicate of the original, but it was not. It was not even recognized by QuickTime Player as a .mov file.
What program do you use for this purpose? What program is reliable for this and produces a joined file that is identical to the original?
Thank you for your reply.

Thank you for your help and suggestions. I tried a couple of experiments with a video file that has chapter markers. This was created in FCE using the "Export - QuickTime Movie" command.
One experiment was to bring the file into a new, blank sequence in FCE. Then export it right back out as a QuickTime movie. The resulting movie appears to be identical to the original, except that there are no chapter markers any more.
The second experiment was to make a duplicate of the original sequence which I used to make the movie in the first place. In this duplicate, I deleted everything except the chapter markers. I then brought in the video file into that sequence and exported it. The resulting file appears to be identical, and this one does have the chapter markers.
The only problem with doing it that way is that I lose all my edits. What if I wanted to edit something or adjust one of my original edits? I can't go back to that stage, with all my original edits, if I don't have all the original source files.
In addition, it's not clear to me exactly how I would use FCE as the "splitting program." How do you split a sequence into smaller parts?
All I really want to do is take a "snapshot" of the entire project, including all the source files, capture scratch files, etc. I don't need to back up the render files because those can easily be re-rendered. The entire project is taking up about 72 Gb on my hard drive, and I want to offload the whole thing. Even if it takes me 20 DVD-R discs to do it, that's no problem. Someone must have come up with a program or solution to do this.
Thanks!

What's the best way to trim a video file?

I have a big mov file (143 GB). I just need to trim a part of that file quickly. I tried to trim and save it as an mp4 but the quality turned out awful. I just trimmed and saved it as an mov but it's taking forever. Is there any quicker way I can do this?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Email isn't really designed for large file transfer and so most videos of a few minutes or more at an acceptable quality can't be sent.
Sign up for a free YouTube account and upload the video and set it as private. You can then invite people to watch the video.
If the person on the other end needs to be able to edit the video then I'd suggest snail mailing a CD/DVD.
If quality isn't an issue then you can use the Export options in Quicktime Pro to make the video file size small before you email it.
mrtotes

Compressing large video files on to a dvd

How can I put 10 GB of raw video footage on a 4.7 GB dvd? What kind of compression would I use to keep good quality?

As pointed out, if you want a video DVD, then use 90 Minutes Best, and you will want to compress your audio to an AC3 file. Then you have to bring both into DVD SP to actually author a disc. You cannot just files on a disc to create a video DVD.
If you want to send files to someone else so they can edit the video, then you do not want to compress the video at all. If you compress the files, then someone edits it and then compresses again (to DVD, web, etc.) then the video will be double compressed. This always results in the loss of quality. Never compress video you want to edit, only compress the final output.
That being said your file will not fit on a DVD. Two choices, use a portable hard drive, or use Toast to automatically segment the video onto as many discs as needed. The person who you give the discs to (Mac or PC) can then re-combine the segments on their hard drive using a program that is automatically burned onto the discs.

Compressing large video files to MPEG4

I am creating long HD video files (10 hrs long) in FCP that I want to compress to MPEG4 with AAC audio. My iMac handles the files easily but the compression time in Compressor is obviously outrageous. Can anyone tell me how compression times would compare with a Mac Pro dual processor 2.66GHz Intel Xeon X5650 "Westmere" CPUs?

FYI - My iMac is a 2.33 MHz with 2 GB Ram and 1TB HD

Best Way To Extract Large Text Files From Query

Using CF7/SQL Server 2000. I need to extract about 50,000 records from another server, and save it to a .CSV file. Not sure what the best method is for this. I've got the query written, and it will pull all the records. But don't want to display them on the screen, just store in a .CSV file somewhere on the server.
I've looked at CFFILE and CFDIRECTORY, and those don't seem to be the best tools for this. What about using CFCONTENT with CFHEADER? I use that to output to Excel files
<CFCONTENT type="application/vnd.ms-excel">
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=c:\mydir\myfile.xls">
But when trying to use it, it doesn't save the file on my drive. Would appreciate advice on the best tools/tags for extracting large volumes of data from other servers, and saving to a local file.
Once working, ultimately, I'd like to set it up, so the .CFM job runs daily, automatically, extracts the data and FTP's it to another server. I've seen the CFFTP tag, but until I can get a file saved on my drive, or another server's drive, there's nothing to FTP. Thanks for any help/advice.
Gary

Thanks, but I can't find any good examples of using CFFILE (just syntax of the tag, which doesn't make a lot of sense). I've been writing CF code for 8 years, and feel I can make it sing and dance. But I didn't understand how CFFILE worked, from reading the online documentation and my Ben Forta books. There are no good examples. Do you still write the query with CFQUERY, then "substitutute" CFFILE for CFOUTPUT? Or enclose CFFILE inside CFOUTPUT? I can't find any examples that explain this.
I just need to see a basic example of CFFILE "in action." Starting with a simple query, and a simple output that writes the query results to a file.
Lastly, once you have the data written to a file, using CFFILE, is that when you can use CFFTP, to FTP that file, (or any file on the hard drive for that matter) to another server?
Thanks for help, and any simple examples, just to get me started. Thanks.
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What is the best way of compressing a large 3 hour final cut file

What is the best way of compressing a large 3 hour final cut file. I shot the play and it is in final cut and I rndered it so now I have a 22gb file that I need to put on a dvd . Any suggestions
Thanks
Macbook Pro
2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
with Final Cut Pro 7.0.3
using Lion as operating system

Presuming your menus aren't complicated(include audio or video) the total size for the MPG-2 and AC3 files should probably be under 8GB for a dual layer disk. The inspector will tell you the estimated size. 2-pass varible bit rate would be recommended.
Trying to fit 3 hours on a DVD-5 will only bring very noticable quality hits. Compressor will let you change the average bit rate so that you can fit 174 minutes but trade-off isn't worth it in my opinion.
Be aware that dual-layer -R and +R media may not play well for everyone everywhere.
I presume you are not making 1000 or more copies? If you were replication could solve this.
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