Want to decrease file size

My pictures might be 400-500 KB and I want to shrink them to only 20-50 KB. I use them as images only 1.5 inches square in documents. Is there an easy way to do this- so I can drag an drop to a word doc.

Usually you can resize the pic in Word. Otherwise: select the pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and in the resulting dialogue you have the option to change the dimensions and file size.
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TD

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Thanks in advance for suggestions.

Your AVCHD files are highly compressed. During import to iMovie they must be expanded to an editable format (AIC) which increases the file size.
The only way to "compress" these files is an export. An export from iMovie would "render" any effects, transitions or text making these items un-editable in the future. You could export your "raw" footage but this could also lead to problems in future imports.
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I was tasked with recording a webinar for work, which I did using Screenium (it can't record audio from GoToMeeting) and WireTap. In Screenium I recorded the video using AIC (there are all of the other QT video choices as well), and in WireTap I used AAC Medium quality). I then synchronized and merged the audio and video together in iMovie, and then Exported as an AIC video. This produced a whooping 9.21GB file! Ouch, especially considering the video from Screenium was only 5.25GB for an hours recording.
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This produced a whooping 9.21GB file! Ouch, especially considering the video from Screenium was only 5.25GB for an hours recording.
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I've tried using h.264 with some other video stuff that I've done in the past, and I don't like it. I see lots of artifacts and noise in the video, as well as the color being off, and generally getting a flat looking video compared to the original.
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Stanley - thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how to answer the question. Maybe if I give a more detailed account of my project, it will help.
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I first imported the audio file into Premiere and then imported the 12 slides.
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Comments: NTSC Source to Download 512kbps
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At the bottom of the Export Settings Window, it says Estimated File Size: 246 MB.
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Wouldn't the quality then be not as good? Taking a 60KB photo and enlarging it to 500KB again like the original would make it look horrible, wouldn't it? Sorry, Im not around my personal computer right now so I cant try it but I was under the assumption that it wasn't the original file being sent, just a thumbnail so therefore it wouldn't be the same quality/resolution.

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Can anyone explain what the 'other' storage consists of and how I can decrease the size please?

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Default Image Format Choose a default option for the folio. Individual articles can have different Image Format settings. Choose Automatic if you want to let InDesign determine whether to export the pages as JPEG, PNG, or PDF. If you want to reduce file size at the possible expense of image fidelity and performance, choose JPEG or PDF. Choosing PDF lets users zoom in on pages that do not have interactive content.
Our app is now 825mb and I am looking for ways to shrink it. We have used auto settings (presumably this means JPEG) at High. Our intention was to remake all the folios using PDF* to enable pinch/zoom (on pages that have no interactivity) but there is no way of telling what effect this will have on the file size since the PDF option offers no control over image quality.
Can Adobe please clarify these settings.
* We would have done this from the outset but for the fact that there is no desktop preview for this option.

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Syncing audio to slide shows difficult, I have tried it. We do have quite a bit of video but also a lot of large stills and these are the ones that I am concerned about if rendering as PDF since there are no controls for altering the image quality within PDF folios. I am wondering what setting actually is actually used?
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Reduce file size with action wizard

(German version below)
Hey,
I got two questions for action wizard in Acrobat XI Pro.
I try to reduze file size of many PDFs using acion wizard. My tests worked fine but now I got some problems I try to explain now:
1. I add a directory with many subdirectorys to my process list. Adobe now adds not only PDFs to my list, it also adds JPGs, DOCs etc. That means I have to delete every single file I not want to convert to PDF cause I only want to reduce file size of excisting PDFs. Is there any possibility to only add PDFs in my processing list?
2. If a PDF is opend by any other user I get a information about it. This info I need to acknowledge every time it pops up cause my process interrups. Is there any possibility to ignore this info?
I´m happy for any help i can get here. Thx.
Regards
(Sorry for bad english, it´s not my favorite language )
Hallo Leute,
ich benötige Hilfe beim Benutzen des Aktionsassistenten im Acrobat XI Pro.
Ich versuche bei sehr vielen PDFs die Dateigröße zu verringern. Dazu habe ich mir eine Stapelverarbeitung per Aktionsassistent erstellt die bei meiner Testumgebung auch super funktioniert. Leider habe ich noch einige Probleme für die ich Hilfe benötige:
1. Wenn ich einen Ordner mit sehr vielen Unterordnern und verschiedenen Inhalten einfüge möchte ich eigentlich nur die PDFs verarbeiten. Leider fügt Acrobat auch alle JPGs DOCs etc. hinzu. Ich muss also alle unerwünschten Dokumente herausfiltern, da auch keine sortierung vorhanden ist. Bei mehreren Tausend Dokumenten nicht leistbar. Gibt es hier eine Möglichkeit nur PDFs in die Stapelverabeitung aufzunehmen?
2. Sollte die Verarbeitung mal laufen kommt es hin und wieder vor das die PDFs durch einen Benutzer geöffnet sind. Ich bekommen hier eine Meldung von Acrobat die ich erst bestätigen muss bevor es weiter geht. Da das Programm eigentlich über mehrer Tage/Wochen im Hintergrund laufen soll passt mir das gar nicht wenn ich alle Stunde überprüfen muss ob die Stapelverabeitung noch läuft.
Ich hoffe es gibt jemanden der mir helfen kann. Ich bin über jede hilfreiche Antwort glücklich.
Gruß

For starters, let's refer to your original post: "this is indeed a serious problem and step back in functionality..." This statement is a quite ridiculous assertion, unnecessarily dramatic, wholly inaccurate, and unhelpful. Your statement "is this a joke" and "I know Acrobat tends to choke...etc..." is just pure gibberish and polemical. It is quite easy to feed any application enough data to cause a performance failure, but one would really need to question one's motive and prudent use of one's time at this point - unless you are tasked with stress and load testing the software to determine minimum working requirements.
'Batch Processing' is, since Acrobat 9.x, dead and gone, Acrobat 11's approach is to aggregate many hitherto unavailable tools and commands and allow the user to create custom workflows. More interactivity has been built into the process, which may or may not be desirable in each case depending on the workflow context and requirements. But we have obviously moved away from the concept of processing a large number of files and towards a more targeted and effective processing of smaller sets of files. The default Actions we deliver with Acrobat 11 reflect this intention.
The feature "Batch Processing", which was an Acrobat feature from A5 (I believe) up to A9, previously had been hidden in Menu/Advanced/Document Processing/Batch Processing has been wholly replaced by a completely overhauled framework called Actions, now part of the Tools panel, and will be immediately accessible when Tools is called in the UI.
Thus the obscured Batch Processing may have been a tool considered and used by an extremely small set of users to do exactly that, i.e., batch process a large number of files, but had been fairly inflexible, generally speaking, and buggy. We were very well aware that if we were to overhaul the feature, add a considerably larger number of available tools and commands in Acrobat, provide wide possibilities for customization built towards specific workflows, and bring it to the forefront, we were going to sacrifice some of the aspects of batch processing a large number of files. Not calling it "Batch Processing" anymore - because it isn't - may be an indication of this intention.
Personally I have used and tested Batch Processing periodically during various Acrobat projects, but I don't remember encountering the "Reduce File Size" command - which is a subset of Save and file optimization - to use within a batch sequence. I may be wrong, and your screen shots would be welcome here. In fact go ahead and construct a batch sequence that (1) uses 'Reduce File Size and (2) applies file type filters to it, and post it either here or to me privately. I would be happy to be wrong. But regardless, we are grateful for positive input that points out defects, allows us to improve the functionality of the product, providing the intended changes are reasonable, and that the communication of said issues remain respectful of this process and of the individuals we depend upon to implement these changes. The tone of your response comes very close to rendering a proper consideration of this issue irrelevant.

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