Make a Quicktime clip small for web

How can I make a Quicktime clip (94MB) small for e-mailing it to a friend?

This what I usually do and it works best. I export the movie file just as a regular quicktime movie which you can select when you go to file-export-quicktime movie. This is a faster way of exporting files out of FCP. Then, i take the quicktime movie file, and import it into iMovie. After it's done importing, then drag it to the timeline in iMovie. Once it is in the timeline, you can go to file-share-quicktime. Then click where it says compress movie for : and i choose the web feature, because i upload projects to a website. I can upload projects that are 43 minutes long, and it was compressed to a size of 240x170 and the size of the 43 minute long piece compressed using the web feature was 49.7MB.
I know there is probably a feature in FCP that does the same thing, but havn't found it out yet. This process has worked nicely for me for the past year and a half, and I have had no problems

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Greetings,
Does anyone know if this is possible within iWeb, that is, to use movies created using Quicktime's "Export to Web" feature, which really seems to deliver superior movie quality?
Much appreciated,
DaveB

Thanks, good stuff, though I'm still having a small problem with this. I'm getting a gray line around the top and left of my movie and the right side of the player is getting cut off. When I try to make the width larger, it just moves the gray line further to the left.
Any ideas?
http://www.brianderr.com/brianderr/copythis3.html
*This is the script that I added to the html snippet in iWeb.* I changed the height to 505px because it was cutting off the bottom of the player at 496.
<iframe src="http://idisk.me.com/brianderr/Public/KANYE%20PT%201/kanye1.html"
style="width:720px; height:505px";
scrolling="no">
</iframe>
*This is the script from my read me file that I kept:*
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<head>
<title>QuickTime Pro - Export for Web - KANYE PT 1</title>
<script src="http://www.apple.com/library/quicktime/scripts/ac_quicktime.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://www.apple.com/library/quicktime/scripts/qtp_library.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
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Quicktime 10 "Save For Web", spaces in file names?

Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but:
When using Quicktime 10's "Save for Web" function, it exports movie source files that all have spaces in the filenames (i.e. "Movie - iPhone.m4v" etc)
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but most web servers DO NOT like having spaces in the filenames, and every time I try to upload them to one of our web servers, I'm getting an error message that says it doesn't like the file.
Simply removing the spaces from the filenames causes the Quicktime reference movie to stop working, as you might expect.
Am I missing something here? How would someone possibly get this to work?

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Hi Kim,
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Are they sill that way on Safe Mode?
Is Spotlight trying to index that drive?

QuickTime 10 Save for Web

Hello,
I used QT 10 to Save for Web and embedded the video in a web page per the instructions available upon completing the Save As. When I do the video plays in Safari, plays with errors in Internet Explorer, and does not play at all in Chrome. IE complains about errors in the .js file that the export states to put in the HEAD element. Has anyone else run into this?
thanks in advance,
mitch

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What setting are the best for exporting small .mov files to the internet. I would like to export 6 min. video in less then 20 MB. any ideas?
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Wow there are a lot of answers available for search here on this forum.
I like File-Export - Quicktime Conversion... then choose Broadband HIGH... click on OPTIONS and then SIZE and change to something a bit smaller. Change the Audio to 32k sample and it should get you down under 20megs.
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CaptM

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I'm surprised it's working at all.
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Best for Web viewing

Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions on which is the best way to export my video for web viewing.
Currently I have a project that was only 1.9MB big but when I exported it to a .mov file it came out to be over 350MB large!
My project is currently exporting at 720x480, 29397 [fps], Lower, Quality 50 - Audio at 32000 Hz, Mono, 16bit - DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.
I understand that the 720x480 will have to be reduced and was wonering if anyone out there had any suggestions how to "shrink" the video and make it the best quality for web viewing..
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Currently I have a project that was only 1.9MB big but when I exported it to a .mov file it came out to be over 350MB large!
You are not comparing things correctly. The Project File is no indicator of what the export file is likely to be because it does not include the size of all the clips and media contained in your project. THe ppj is kind of an organisational list of all your edit decisions and the locations of the media theyrefer to etc...

Sharpening for web against sharpening for print

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I want to accomplish 2 things in regards to sharpening.
After doing all color corections I want to sharpen the image for:
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2. print through for example mpix service
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I made an 11 minute film in imovie. I want to put it on my website. I am told that loading it into Quicktime Pro, and then exporting it will give me lots of choices for settings, to optimize the quality and the speed for web viewing. A friend told me to use mp4 at 30 frame at 640 X 480 for acceptable quality. Youtube seems to agree with that. Unfortunately, The resultant quicktime export was a 74 mB file. That seems awfully large for the web. I also tried saving it directly from imovie as an "email", which doesn't allow any tweaking, and that version was 18 mB, and a bit small for web viewing.
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Save for web win7 x64 CS4 x64

...is Rubbish!
crashes everytime. I have to do my save for web in 32bit photoshop. it was flaky on XP 32bit as well but not as consistantly wobbly.
Can anyone report whether its better on CS5?

Can you be more specific about what size image you're starting with, what color depth, what color space? Are you saving .gif, .jpg, what?
I just saved this animated .gif image, for example, using that combination on Windows 7 x64. Notably it continued to work, but when I finally shut Photoshop down Windows reported "Photoshop Has Stopped Working", so... I think your problem is confirmed.
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Try this first:
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Macintosh HD > Repair Disk Permissions
Also make sure your not saving to a removable hard drive that is NTFS. If you can drag files into the drive its the right type of drive to use and there shouldn't be a problem.
Apart from that all i can say is to restart your Mac and make sure all the adobe updaters are up to date
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