Compressing fcp movie for email

Hi, I would like to compress a 6 minute video from FCP into a file that is emailable (about 5MB) and viewable on PC/Mac. It's 16:9 and PAL. Can anyone suggest a codec and specs please? Thanks!

QuickTime Player: File > Share > Email. Choose between Small, Medium and Large.
For your target size of 5MB it will probably have to be about the size of a postage stamp.
You might want to consider making a decent sized, high quality movie and uploading it to RapidShare or similar. Then you only have to email a link telling the recipient where they can download.
http://www.rapidshare.com/

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upload the movies to a webspace and post your friends and family a link.
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Karl is (aside many other things) expert on how-tos and codecs, but one more thing...:
video link:
you have two options for sharing video with the world: you can send the whole file to someone - as an xx MB attachement to a mail...; or, you load up the video to some website (.mac, youtube, whatever...) and send just the link x kB to that site...
asymmetric:
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I am finished with my movie. I am confused now on the exporting to DVD studio pro. How do I do this? My viewer also would like it to be in widescreen because they had just bought a HDTV widescreen.
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Forget about trying to attach a QuickTime file into the restricted space of an email.
Most ISP's limit the file size of attachments (.Mac limit is 10 MB's) and your two and a half minute HD file would consume that much in just a few seconds.
Serve large files from your .Mac iDisk and email just the URL or find (Google) some of the free file sharing services for your QuickTime file.
iWeb, iMovie and iPhoto (part of iLife 08) can help you make Web based files served from your .Mac account ($99 a year for 10 GB's of storage).

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I have been editing for 4-5 years now and have never had a problem with size of a project to put into DVD Studio Pro to burn. However, I just finished a 2 hour project in which exported as a FCP movie it is 23.97 gb in size. When i put this into DVD Studio Pro it makes it 4.8gb in size which just makes it too big for it to burn. I have tried changing the compression to no avail and just now decided to clean up the timeline so everything is on one track with nothing overlapping. (The problem was it was a 2 camera shoot so the first camera i had on the bottom track constant with the second camera on the top track when i needed it but still with the first camera underneath.) Do you think this could be the solution to my problem? If you guys could help me out it would be most appreciated!

some things don't make sense here. please clarify.
Standard DV is roughly 5 minutes per gig, so that means that you have just about 2 hours of video, ok, got that. Now it's the two track thing that gets me.
Are you saying you have 4 hours of footage, the same thing from two cameras, and you're trying to set up a multi-angle DVD?
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My suggestion is, instead of bringing a quicktime file directly into DVDSP, use compressor. I believe they have a preset in compressor 2 for a standard 120 minute DVD. IF you're project is truly less than 120 minutes, than that should be fine. If not, then you may have to manually make your own setting and lower the bitrate.
So the workflow is:
-open sequence in fcp
-file>export>quicktime movie... (you can uncheck "make movie self-contained" if you want it to export faster and you plan on keeping your original capture footage around)
-export your movie to a directory of your choice with a name of your choice.
-open compressor (in applications)
-drag the quicktime file you created into compressors main window, this will set it up. Now specify the export setting (120 minute HQ all files either 16x9 or 4x3 dep. on project) and specify a location for the files to be created. I strongly suggest that you use the HQ (High quality) settings in compressor. It's much slower to process, but much better quality.
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-when compressor is done, you should have 2 or three files. a .m2v file a .aif file, and a .ac3 file. The .aif is your PCM audio, much better quality than the .ac3, which is dolby 2 channel. However, the .ac3 is a much smaller file with a lower bit rate, so if the .aif makes the DVD file size too big, you can switch it out for the .ac3
-Finally, open up your DVDSP project, drag the .m2v, .aif, and .ac3 into DVDSP and use the .m2v for the video track and either the .aif or .ac3 as the audio (as mentioned above)
-the good news is, your DVD media is already rendered, so when you go to build your DVD it will go much, much faster!
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Remember, 120 minutes on a single layer DVD is going to render fairly low quality no matter what.
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I have a windows system but just installed QuickTime Pro because I understood it would allow compression of movies (home movie segments of no more than 5 minutes) to facilitate e-mailing them. QuickTime instructions describing easy use of a "Share" feature seem geared to the MAC operating system--I have no such option. I've tried opening my movie using Quicktime, going to File, exporting (Movie to Quicktime Movie) with default settings (H.264 compression, quality high, key frame rate 24, etc., audio at format integer, sample rate 11.024 khz, etc.) and prepare for internet streaming (fast start). The movie goes into my Quick Time movie files without much compression--going from an AVI file of 60.4 MB to a quicktime movie of 40.8 MB. This is much larger than the quicktime movies emailed to me of longer duration which were only a few MB. Any help for a novice who at this point only wants to compress and email movies? Thanks.
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That sounds like the sound is being exported in
uncompressed format. Suggest you open one of these
filesw and use MovieInfo in the Windows menu to see
what format is being used for the sound. If it is
listed as uncompressed or raw or PCM, you may want to
try using mpeg-4 sound (aac or advance audio
compression).
Thanks much. I tried saving the file using the AAC option (rather than Linear PCM) and that got it down only slightly (from 40.8 to 40.5 MB). I'll just keep experimenting.

Compress for Email

Im tring to compress a QT file thats 108 mb is there a compression I can use to make it emailable(I know not a word) with out losing quality???

There is no "magic bullet" so you'll likely lose some quality. However, you'll get the best quality with the H.264 codec. However, in order to view the resultant H.264 movie your email clients, customers, friends, or family will need QuickTime 7. The H.264 codec is also very processor intensive so compression times will be very long and anyone who wants to view the video will have to have a fairly fast system (probably 1GHz G4 or better).
Next best choice would probably be MPEG4 or Sorenson (the latter as an export from the QuickTime Pro Player), perhaps at a reduced frame size and frame rate. First thing to try would be to cut the frame rate to something like 15fps or even 12fps, next would be to reduce the frame size (try 320x240 for an NTSC source).
You also might want to consider one of the third-party MPEG4 variants like DivX or 3ivx. Note, however, that DivX has some compatibility issues under QuickTime 7 (may already be fixed or may soon be fixed).

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