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How do I compress a quicktime movie for e-mail? Some of my movies are to big and take long to send.

How do I compress a quicktime movie for e-mail? Some of my movies are to big and take long to send.
Basically there are two approaches. The first is to compress the standalone/self-contained file to a very small dispaly, low data rate, low frame/key frame frequency, efficient file format and send it as an e-mail attachment. The downside is, of course, poor or reduced viewing quality. The second method is to create/post a higher quality movie to the internet for viewing in a browser by e-mailing just the URL or sending a QT Media Link file or other reference movie which accesses the main resource file which you upload to a server. The downside here is you must be online to view the file and depending on the file settings may require a highspeed ISP connection. Primarily, you must first make a decision regarding the minimal level of quality that is acceptable for your purposes. as well as, the resources available to both you and your potential recipient. This will determine which work flow best suits your particular needs.

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I've been working on a video conversion project using the ADVC300 to import old VHS clips into iMovie 6.
For the past two weeks I've read and experimented every which way to get a good quality representation of my video on the computer. The only good looking file that didn't give me black horizontal lines everywhere (MPEG-4 and H.264 tests) was the full quality setting. After much frustration with this I set it on the "Compress movie for CD-ROM" setting as a last resort, only to find this was exactly what I wanted. From my comparisons these files look as good as the .dv files at a MUCH smaller size.
So, just out of curiosity, is there any way of finding out exactly what these CD-ROM settings are? How exactly is this stuff getting compressed?
Thanks for your input.

Great. I'll use those settings and experiment a little.
Now, if I could only find some way of speeding up the process. I know, buy a new computer. One 12 minute clip took about 50 minutes to finalize last evening. This will be a long process, with about 2 boxes of VHS tapes to convert, but at least there's other things to be done in the house while the computer is churning away.
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Compressing .mov and keeping alpha without changing to .flv

Hello,
I am trying to run a .mov file with alpha through Adobe Media Encoder to get a compressed .mov file with alpha.
I found that I could change the file type to .flv with On2 VP6 codec, but I cannot use that because my file type must be .mov. I am bringing the compressed .mov into Unity as a movie texture and Unity will only accept .mov .mpg .mpeg .mp4 .avi .asf.
Is there a way that I can run a .mov with alpha through AME and get a compressed .mov with alpha?
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The reason that you're getting a large file out of After Effects is that you're using the defult Lossless output module template, which uses the Animation codec. There is no reason to go through AME to make a smaller QuickTime movie. Just export directly from After Effects and choose a different codec in the output module settings. If you're using QuickTime, PNG is a good choice for getting smaller files that still have alpha channels.
However, why do you even care about file size if you also want an alpha channel? The reason to care about file size is for final ditribution; the reason to care about alpha channels is for using the file in a post-production process. Worrying about both at the same time means that you're likely confusing the requirements of two very different parts of the pipeline.

Compressing .mov files out of Final Cut

I'm trying to export some Final Cut projects into .mov files but I need them to be compressed to 10mb or less. How do I do that in compressor? Or is there another software application that can take existing .mov files and shrink them down? Any help is appreciated.

Take the exported quicktime files. I use reference files, and drop it into compressor (open compressor and import it or just drop the file into the list area there). In the dropdown settings you should be able to select a web version that suits you and export it.
There is also info in the inspector that tells you an approximate size of the exported file. That should help determine if the codec you chose is going to work or not.
Caleb

Help w/compressing movie

i put to together a movie from a dvd and audio from a cd, its about 2 hours long and the file size is a whopping 20 GB. i'm going to compress it to quicktime, but im wondering if that will screw with the audio, and also how big the file may be. thank you, if you need any more info i'll be glad to give it.

iMovie works within the DV specification. This simply means that 2 hours of DV material should equal 26GB. The video should be in a DV stream and the audio sampled at 16-bit/48KHz. You have several export options out of iMovie. If you choose DV stream, then nothing is changed and you have a 26GB file. Choosing other compression options will affect both audio & video. How it is affected depends on how it is compressed (which option you choose)!
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Compressing Movies with Audio?

Does anyone have any ideas on tools or techniques for
compressing Captivate files with audio? I'm sure this is a fairly
simple (and common) issue, probably with a simple (?) solution. But
there has to be a way to reduce/compress the file size, which
increases exponentially even when just a bit of voiceover is added
to a slide.
I've already broken the movie up into several smaller movies
and tried tricks like that, but I'm at a real loss. Any suggestions
would be very welcome! Thanks!

One option might be to set you audio settings to a lower
quality within Captivate itself.
Another option that might work is to convert your .swf to a
movie format - .wmv, .mpg, .mov. There are several software apps
out there to do this. During the conversion - you can specifically
set the audio properties (quality) you want.

Compressing movie for the web

Hello All!
Im fairly new to director but have lots of experience with flash. Hope it will become handy
I have eLearning movie that I plan to distribute over the internet but the published dcr is 22mb which is not ideal for preloading. I guess that I need to optimize all the images and audio files inside the movie. My target file size is about 3 to 5mb.
I have some questions, ill be glad to get some inputs
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Hi again,
I investigate the dir file and I discover lots of audio files in swa format. All of them contain makeover voice. Im pretty sure they should be converted into mp3 or mp4. The big question is how do I do it?
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Possible to have clickable link in a compressed movie

Hello forum readers,
I have several QT movies that I'm compressing in Compressor 1.2.1.
These movies will be offered free on the internet , and I would like to have my logo branding (bottom right corner) so when clicked - it would take them to the website in a browser.
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Greetings, 9mluke.
While I've never done this, it is possible to have clickable urls in a Quicktime file. MacBreak Weekly does this. In fact, they have a video podcast which takes you step by step through the process. It requires a 3rd party program called LiveStage Pro to actually embed clickable links. All of that is described in their podcast which can be found via iTunes here:
MacBreak 31: The Road To 1080p pt. 6

Compressed mov appears dark on a Windows computer

(This is cross-posted in the QuickTime for Macintosh group)
I am using Qt 7.0.4 on Macintosh OS 10.3.9
When I export a movie using any compression (even the slightest) it appears dark on a Windows computer (much more so than the gamma difference between Mac and PC monitors) but it appears normal on the Macintosh. If I export the movie with no compression it appears the same on the Mac and the PC.
Please see this example: http://www.sketchpad.net/quarkmulti_bg_image384.htm
I really need to compress the movie for bandwidth reasons, but all the compression settings I have tested gives the same result - dark movie in Windows.
Does anyone have any ideas? If I use QT Pro for Windows, will the results be different?
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thank you for your reply. I have tried MPEG-4 and H.264. I have the 23 in Apple Cinema HD display on both the Mac and PC computers. Both the Mac and PC monitors are calibrated. I calibrated the Mac monitor using the 2.2 Television Gamma to minimize the difference between the Mac and PC displays.
But there is a definite difference when I export with no compression. The movie comes out perfect. But there is a very noticeable difference when compressed. I have seen the gamma difference before using OS 9 and with my older monitors and this does not look the same.
I just wanted to know if this was a problem for others or only a problem with my setup. I suppose I could try it on a different monitor somewhere else.

How to compress .MOV files?

So, I have a monster 4GB folder full of .MOV files shot on an iPhone 4 that I need to compress small enough to fit on two or three 700MB discs - or a 2GB flash drive. However, I don't really know how to it. I used the Archive Utility to zip it and the folder is still the same size as the original, so I assume that doesn't truly "compress" things. Is it possible to compress in iMovie (and if so, how), or will I need freeware to do it? Or is it even possible at all?

Is it possible to compress in iMovie (and if so, how), or will I need freeware to do it? Or is it even possible at all?
The basic answer here is that any converter app that exports the audio + video data to a lower combined total data rate will produce a small file. However, there is a limit to your ability to decrease the data rates and still produce useable output. In general, decreasing the data rate will drecrease quality unless you also decrease the dimensions of the targeted encoding matrix and/or otherwise modify the distribution of data per unit of time. In most cases the basic strategy is to use a high effeciency codec export option that allows the user to manually modify the export settings to produce the most compact file with a level of quality that the user "can live with." How low you can go will usually depend on the preferences of the specific user. Since your iPhone files are already highly compressed, my personal recommendation in your case would really be to move up to higher density optical media (e.g., DVD) or break down and spend the $10-$20 it would take to upgrade to a 16 GB or 32 GB drive.

Compressing mov Files

Hi People.
Am hoping to get some help from here with regards to a certain problem. I have a 1.19 GB quicktime mov file which I would like to compress down to a size small enough to email across to someone. It's rather sentimental (of my nephews 1st xmas day - trying to get it across to his parents)
any ideas would be hugely appreciated!

Here is a bit rate converter. It will figure out the file size for you. It's free!
http://www.pimley.net/projects/
Most email accounts have a 10 MB file size.
Another thing you can do is post the video on youTube. You can make it private to were only you can he can view the video. youTube has a maximum of 2 gigs and 10 minute file size. youTube has a help section for making the video. You need an account. If you get stuck report back to here and I'm sure some of us here will give you some help.
Tip: use the h.264 format in Quicktime Pro to compress the video. You must have Quicktime Pro to do what you want to do.

Compressing movies for web use

I have just finished a movie which is now about 6 gb. I do not have a .mac or iweb account. I am looking to upload this on youtube or myspace. However, it needs to be down to about 100 mb.
How can I convert this to a wv format or anything of lower quality??
thanks.

III. hand for iSquint...
have a look in its options:
1) select "for TV"… that generates an mpeg4 ("iPod" generates h264)
2) push Quality slider to the far right, max... click expert options (my user interface is German, correct?)
3) youtube.com requires 320x240
4) bitrate & fps: you reduce the final file size with that; and you set the quality.. NTSC has 30fps, but 15fps cuts the size in half... but movements aren't as smooth...
for publishing that files on your own site, 500-700 kB/s result excellent quality, 200kB/s still acceptable 8depends on content & your personal threshhold)...
my experience with youtube.com: it adds ALLWAYS compression artifacts... no sense to go beyond 300-400 kB/sec
5) you should choose deinterlace
and you can spare some MB by reducing audio quality, I do use 60kB/sec, 22050HZ, mono...
to give you an impression of resulting quality, watch both demo movies on my HowDidYouDoTHAT website (some tricks with iMovie...), in the section Filmstrip ... my demos are .mac hosted, the YouTube demo was uploaded and is on my website embedded...
30minutes... long movie.. for webuse...

Compressed movie loses quality drastially after 30 seconds

Hi,
I am trying to compress a 3.76 GB Quicktime File - a FCP export, 18 min long HDV24p movie 1280x720 - into H.264 800Kbs Streaming. I have tried multiple times from different source files but every time I get same result. A QT file that starts out looking gorgeous, then about 30 seconds in, the quality drops off drastically, gets very pixilated. I have tried different computers and even tried Compressor's QT 6 settings, only to get more pixelated results. Several times, the QT 7 file that Compressor created would open then immediately crash QT 7. Thoughts?
I am using FCP 6.0.1, Compressor 3.0.1 and hopefully going to output to Vimeo.com HD. Working on a G5, OS 10.4.10
(I have had no trouble using the same compressor settings with an SD vid. Turned out gorgeous, even online. So I am a bit out of my league now, I think.)
Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks,
Sarah

You obviously have a problem. You might try downloading a simple program called Compressor Repair. It is on VersionTracker.com if you can't find it via a search engine. This will backup and clear the compressor caches for you. There are several odd locations for these caches, which are not easy to find yourself.
One last tip: If your source is HDV, you might try downscaling the footage to a ProRes 720x480 master first, then make the DVD files from that. It should be much faster since the Dual Pass setting requires compressor to downscale twice, plus the HDV format is not as simple to scale as a simple ProRes file is.
I've found that QuickTime Pro Export does a decent job at scaling and it is much faster than Compressor. If you need the very best quality stay in compressor with the frame tools set to best or better, but this is slow. Only use the frame tools if you are building ProRes masters. Never use them if you are generating HVD, MP2 or XDCAM formats since these will take much much longer than a simple ProRes does.

Compressing .mov to mp4 comes out in Slow Motion!

I have Compressor version 3.5.3 but I don't think that's what the problem is. I'm trying to compress an 11GB Quicktime file down to a couple of GB.
It's a PAL .mov file, 1920x1080, 25fps, 48000kHz/16.
These are the Settings I chose :
Video: Encoder MPEG4, 1920x1080, 25fps,
Key Frame interval: I change 15 to 25. Is that wrong?
Bit rate: medium VBR
Audio: Mono because Stereo greyed out 48000kHz.
Bit rate 64kbps is what comes up with 48000kHz. (When I changed it to 16bit it brought 22000kHz)
Frame Controls Option is off. Is that correct?
The result was a clip in Slow Motion Video and Audio alike.
What did I do wrong? Is there an incompatibility somewhere? I'd be most grateful for any suggestion. Thank you,

Hello Russ, these are the 3 Inspector screenshots you requested:
1) Inspector for the Quicktime file to be compressed:
2) Inspector Summary 1
3) Inspector Summary 2
4) Inspector Encoder 1
5) Inspector Encoder 2
That's how I ended up with slow motion in the converted mp4 file. What do you make of it?
Many thanks in advance for any light you could throw on this.

Does iDVD 6 Compress Movies?

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Importing compressed movie and attaching to button

I need help. I've got a final cut pro 4.5 movie that i've compressed through Compressor 1.2.1 that is 3.14 GB. I've set up my menu through DVD Studio Pro 2.0 and everything and have no trouble attaching the audio to the play button, but everytime I try to attach the movie to the button the pinwheel comes up and its like my computer freezes. I'm not sure what's wrong, is my project too big or what's going on? Any advice would be great!

Sorry, I will try to explain better. I made a very simple menu with one picture, a title and a play movie button. As I said before, I am new to DVDSP, but I was told all I had to do was drag my movie from my movies folder over the Play movie button and click 'create button and track' to make the movie play when you click the play movie button. I think you are correct and the media might be damaged, because when I've tried to play the compressed mpeg2 file it opens in compressor and says 'Alert Error trying to open source media file.
I've tried compressing it twice already (which takes 7hrs) and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've called apple and they said to check my setting which I have done. Could it have anything to do with my project being shot with two different cameras, one 24p and the other a normal sony video camera?

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