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General => General Discussion => Video Editing/Compression => Topic started by: Raskal on January 01, 2006, 09:38:10 PM

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: Raskal on January 01, 2006, 09:38:10 PM

I just rendered my video and it was 1.16 GB or something. and thats pretty big so is there anything i can do to fix that so that it is something smaller?

and hopefully once its compressed where can i upload the video?

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: m3rrix on January 01, 2006, 10:29:25 PM

I spose it depends on what editing software you used, but you can reduce your file size by playing around with the render settings.  Check out the editing tutorials for some nice settings.

As for uploading, try The Gamer's Alliance.

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: Raskal on January 01, 2006, 10:35:53 PM

Thanks, I had it in .avi format first and it was huge then i changed it to wmv and now its only 87
 

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: [madman] on January 02, 2006, 12:26:11 AM

i bet u didnt use compressing when i saved in avi, anyway if ur gonna render a video in avi you gotta get avi codecs so that the video can be compressed, i prefere these codecs, 3ivx,Xvid, Div X.

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: Xtramus on January 02, 2006, 01:55:31 AM

Check out Daffy's high quality compression tutorial in the video editing tutorials section, those are very well I use them for everything I render. As for compression after rendering, click the file with right mouse button and select add to "filename".rar, where filename is the name of the file duh.

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: m3rrix on January 02, 2006, 02:22:38 AM

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Check out Daffy's high quality compression tutorial in the video editing tutorials section, those are very well I use them for everything I render. As for compression after rendering, click the file with right mouse button and select add to "filename".rar, where filename is the name of the file duh.

I have an issue with Daf's render settings.  Whilst they are fantastic, fraps v1.9 - which most people use - does not allow video to be captured at any higher than 480x640. A lot of people apply Daffy's settings - which render at 600x800 - without realising this and so make their video unecesssarily large and actually, in my opinion, reduce the quality.

There are actually a few really well known vids that fell into this trap.

If however you can 'aquire' a better version of fraps then Daffy's/Freakshow's settings work a gem. ;)

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: Xtramus on January 02, 2006, 02:27:12 AM

I use fraps 1.9d without any problems.. and the quality is still great for me.. Anyway I'll talk to you on MSN about something I'm working on k?

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: Brandon on January 02, 2006, 09:10:43 AM

right click - send to - compressed zip file

;P

Title: How Do you Compress A File?
Post by: [madman] on January 05, 2006, 11:12:05 AM

lol