How do i compress i movie

my movie is about 7 gb and the dvd is only 4.7. how do i fit this onto a disk

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I created a 7.7 GB movie in imovie and I nead to make it fit on a regular 4.7 GB dvd disk.
Can I turn it into a zip file and use the zip file in idvd. What other ways are there?

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You'll need to get an application that makes your dvd's into avi files. Google that.
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How do I compress a .mov to edit in iMovie

I want to edit my .mov on iMovie but the program won't import it because it is too large (I think). How can I compress it for editing? I am using a MacBook Pro with 2G free. The numbers are: HDV 1080i Linear PCM 16 bit 2 ch, 48000HZ FPS 29.97, Data 21.39GB, Data Rate 26.53 Mbit/s Current 1,280x720 pixels.

Hi
I am using a MacBook Pro with 2G free.
Yes this is way to low.
I never let my MBP go less than 25Gb (when all material are imported) !
So You need to free up lot's of lot's of space to get iMovie to work as intended.
If You use an external hard disk to off load some old projects onto - THEN IT HAS TO BE - Mac OS Extended formatted - ELSE it will go terribly wrong as UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - WILL NOT WORK.
Yours Bengt W

How do I compress my movie

I have created a movie on iMovie HD 5.0.2 (111) and I think it is too big. I have many picture and video files, some voice over using my built in microphone, and music files. All in all my movie came out to be 26.03 GB. I am hoping there is a way to compress or flatten (like in Photoshop) all my files into one file because the movie is a gift and I need it off my computer. The movie is 56:49 in total time. PLEASE HELP!!
here are my computer specs:
-Mac OS X 10.4.10
-Powerbook G4
-512 MB DDR SDRAM
-Hard Drive: 74.41 GB

26.03GB for a 57:49 movie is spot on: DV streams run at 13GB per hour!
There is no need to compress, iDVD will do that for you, as it converts the iMovie project to the standard DVD format of mpeg2.
A standard DVD holds up to 120 minutes of video, including titles and transitions etc.
Open iDVD, go to the file menu, click on import, select the iMovie project from the Movies folder, do what you need regarding themes, menus etc, and burn the DVD.

When I compress my movie to quicktime, the audio doesn't sync properly, even though it looks fine in iMovie. How do I fix this?

When I compress my movie to quicktime, the audio doesn't sync properly, even though it looks fine in iMovie. How do I fix this?

Audio on the timeline, especially stream, tends to play very reliably. Is this project under any NDA or can you provide a FLA to examine? Let me know if you want to private message it and I'll shoot you a message.
What version of Flash Player are you targeting and is this AS2 or AS3?

How do I compress .mov and .mpg files

I have several mpg1video clips at 18.8MB each, how do I compress them into smaller files. I want to e-mail them at about 2-3MB each, and maintain good quality? Power Mac G5 2.3 OSX 10.4.4 My objective is to upload 30 second video commercials and 2-3 minute clips to my web site or e-mail them to various clients. Need help.
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morris1

For most users just using a browser other than Safari solves the trouble.
When I encounter pages that don't show the Pro "pull down" (right end of the controller) I simply Control click on the video window to bring up the contextual menu.

How do you compress . . . losslessly?

Hi,
I should know how to do this, but I can't! We make 4 minute programs. We now shoot on Panasonic P2 cards with the HVX200 - mostly in HD. Edits perfectly in Final Cut Pro 7. All works great, overcranking, etc.
So we'd like to give our client a Master in pretty much lossless format as a QT movie. We export the program from FCPro as a Self Contained movie - the HD format is using about 60mbs data rate, our older Standard Definition (shot on Mini DV) exports as SC movies at about 30 mbs. Everything works well and is fine, and the QT exported movies will play fine - so long as the computer has FCPro loaded on it (which means it has already put the DVCPro Codec in the QT folder). If you try to play a self contained exported movie from FCPro - on a Mac that doesn't have FCPro - the movie won't play. Nor can any PC play it (I don't think.) (Because they won't have the DVCPro codec loaded in the QT folder)
So all we want to do is put the SC movie into Compressor (the older, standard definition shows), compress it so I'll end up with a QT movie that everybody (all our clients) can play. I'm not looking to actually "compress" the movie to make it smaller - I just want it "playable" in all computers with QT. So When I compress in Compressor, say, an older DV program, I'll choose 30,000kbps as the rate with full size export, no frames control (as I'm not changing the size or frame rate) -- and here's where the weirdness begins. When Compressor is finished with a 4 minute movie- it plays fine - but NOT at 30 mbs. It fluctuates, but usually plays about 14 mbs or thereabouts! But WHY? I put in 30mbs - but that's not what Compressor does!
To make matters worse - if I compress only a 10 second "test" clip - set it at 30mbs - it'll compress that at about 24 mbs . . . better than 14, but still is ignoring what I tell it. We use one pass (it's faster, and I figure I don't need VBR at these high data rates - could be wrong here. Using h.264 of course. When I compress the HD footage, things seem to work. I can choose 40 mbs, and that's what ompressor does - but with the miniDV Masters - it won't recompress it at 30mbs? I'm also noticing even though I tell Compressor to export at Full Size (720x480) my exported tests are at 655x480?? ***???
Why won't Compressor listen to me!! Grrrrr . . .
Can any of you gurus out there help? I'm simply trying to compress our Self contained exported Masters to QT - not so much to make the files smaller - rather to get them OUT of the DVCPro codecs so they'll play on a computer without FCPro loaded on it.
Wait a minute - I might be getting slightly confused - with the Standard Definition movies shot on MiniDV - perhaps THOSE SC movies can be played by any any machine with QT?
Thanks for any input here!
Larry

Hi Larry,
the Apple ProRes codecs will give you the lossless thing that you wanted.
As you are working with P2 material you can use the Log & Transfer function in FCP to ingest your clips and transcode them into ProRes.
L&T has a setup for ingesting from P2 where you can decide how to transcode your material into: Apple ProRes codec is one of the choice.
You can choose Apple ProRes 422, which will give you good results, keeping the 4:2:2 color space of your source material.
In this way you will be working in a ProRes timeline.
Then you don't need to do any downscaling to SD, just export a self contained QuickTime movie with current settings (no recompressing) and you will get an Apple ProRes encoded QT movie, playable on both Macs and PCs having the QT player installed.
Here you can find more details about these codecs and different professional workflows, including working with P2:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/professionalformatsandworkflows/
Regards,
Armando.

How Do I compress video?

I produce sports instructional videos. Trying to learn stuff to podcast. I had my video editor take parts of my videos and put together four 15-20 minutes videos for four separate podcasts. I was able to get the four complete videos in i-Movie. How do I compress the videos?
Thanks in Advance
Coach Marty
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what I do for my podcast is to edit the Podcst in FCP down to 22mins in length,
export it out as a Quicktime .mov file, and then use Visual Hub to create my
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How do I compress a 2 min FCP video into 100MB for web upload?

How do I compress a 2 min FCP video into 100MB for web upload?
I have FCP v.7 as a part of FCStudio
OK, this may seem like a stupid question for most of you but I haven't used FCP for years. I am trying to make and upload a 2 min video to the web and don't know how to turn it into a size of 100MB or less.
Yes, I realize that I have Compressor but it does not work on my computer for some reason. I think my laptop is too old for it or something.
It needs to be in one of these formats and I would like to use the highest quality. Suggestions needed for this also since this will be my first attempt at an uploaded video.
.MOV, .WMV, .AVI, .MPG, .3GP, 3G2, .QTL, OR .MP4
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First, let me apologize for the way we were chatting on your thread while waiting.
Let me summerize what I think we have here:
1. You have a 2 minute show you want to convert to some codec appropriate for high quality presentation, but under 100MB final filesize.
2. You feel you don't want to use Compressor or a preset for YouTube.
3. You're in a hurry.
The fastest and highest quality method of making this conversion is using Compressor. It is designed to do precisely what you ask. The codec you want is H.264.
The YouTube preset is being suggested not because we think you're going to upload the clip to that site, but because the YouTube preset is a remarkably easy way to get a HQ H.264 clip with acceptable filesize. I'm staring at a 3:40 clip of 1080p that would knock your socks off and it's 90MB!
Even on a laptop the conversion is a matter of minutes.
If you're OK with my arguement, I'll write out a step-by-step proc for you and you can be done with this in time for that primetime show you want to watch. OK?

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If the file is longer than a minute in time then it may be too large for email.
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How to crop a QuickTime movie? I mean, a ".mov" movie that shows a black area on top and bottom, which I want to delete.
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Compressing QT Movies

Hi Folks. I like to make little, quick demo movies using Snapz Pro. Some of them get quite large, so I want to compress them to save space, but maintain the most quality. If so, how do you compress them? I would assume Quicktime Pro is the only way to do this, Is that correct? Are there other apps than can compress QT movies as well? Also, should the QT files stay as movies or should they be converted to mpg4 format?
Thank you for any help. Steveb

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Thank you for any help. Steveb

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how long will quicktime pro movie record?
That depends. How much free space do you have available on a single drive? Which compression format do you plan to use? How fast is your CPU. Barring the unexpected, QT 7 Pro will record until it runs out of scratch space. Frame rates are dependent on your CPU power which means newer, more powerful platforms record more frames per second and thus tend to have higher data rates up to the max standard for the system. Lastly, the compression format/device type/device capture size/graphic complexity combination also determines the average data rate. So, as long as the average data rate times the duration of the clip is less than the amount of free space available on your hard drive, you can record continuously.
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