QTdemo reel: Optimize for the web
I have a demo reel of 4 minutes. I have quicktime 6.5 Pro. What can I do to get this file small enough so that it can be attached to emails (maybe 5 mb)? Naturally, I'd expect the quality to be diminished and the size of the image to be pretty small.
Thanks
Bart
You can greatly reduce the size of a video to email by importing it into Movie Maker. However the last time I did it, Movie Maker would not import a .mov. I had to first convert it to a .avi with QT pro to import it into Movie Maker. And then it becomes a .wmv.
If you scroll down to the post in this link by Allen Richard it decribes how it is done.
http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=22881
I'm not sure how to reduce it in QT pro, and keep it as a .mov, if that is what you are trying to do.
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Don't expect me to spoon feed you... but export it as a quicktime conversion and use one of the presets.
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I'm basically trying to optimize a transparent image for the
web. I have a straight PNG vesion here, which is what I'm trying to
do, but it's around 96k - so a bit high.
It looks like :
example
one
I tried exporting it as an 8 bit PNG, which got the file size
down, and looks OK in Safari, but looks hopeless in IE (6) :
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2
So I tried exporting as a transparent GIF, but it only looks
like these :
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Any tips on how I can optimize it a bit better for the web,
and retain it's original appearance?
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> Hope someone can help with this.
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the web. I have a
> straight PNG vesion here, which is what I'm trying to
do, but it's around
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> so a bit high.
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http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepagetemp.shtml
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> I tried exporting it as an 8 bit PNG, which got the file
size down, and
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> OK in Safari, but looks hopeless in IE (6) :
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http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepage.shtml
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> So I tried exporting as a transparent GIF, but it only
looks like these :
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http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepagetemp3.shtml
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http://www.handprintdvd.co.uk/webdesign/carcarenew/homepagetemp4.shtml
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web, and retain
> it's
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So, I took three 10 second clips of steady camera video with audio from the camera that I used in all tests. I will refer to them by clip number...
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Test 2 used size 480x270 (16:9)
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Clip 2: 1.1mb
Clip 3: 1.1mb
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Clip 2: 1440kb
Clip 3: 204kb
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Test 2 used size 320x180.
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Clip 2: 865kb
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Morning
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for(var a in folderList){
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for (var z in fileList){
var file = fileList[z];
open(file);
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//FitImage(128,128);
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app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function processFolder(folder) {
var fileList = folder.getFiles()
for (var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++) {
var file = fileList[i];
if (file instanceof Folder) {
folderList.push(file);
processFolder(file);
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HT5182 How can I convert Raw images from iphoto to jpg for the web?
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