How to shrink a Quickie

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: How to shrink a Quickie

I've got a 40MB Quicktime video which I'd like to compress in some way so I could post it here. Does anyone know how to do this?

blue hell · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject:

Super (for PC) seems to give me good results lately, it's a bit like your current avatar though Very Happy

I wasn't going to say anything about that Laughing

http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html at the very bottom has the download links, I never tried mov files with it myself, but it seems to be able to handle 'm. Don't know if it's a quickie though, all the video tools around seem to assume you know something about it.

The website sucks, but there are help files on it, somewhere, there should be, I once saw them.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:45 am Post subject:

Still iPod friendly video in mp4 using h264 should do just fine. There are several freeware apps out there that will use the ffmpeg and other bundles.
You can often use presets but you might also adjust framerate and quality yourself.

I use visualhub myself and it even uses xgrid so I can dump transcoding tasks to other computers on my home lan. We like that! Cool

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:23 am Post subject:

I tried Super, but even though it successfully reduced the framerate to 10 I can't get it to encode the audio. There's no audio on any settings I do. Whether I go to mp4 or keep it as a mov.

I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about Stein. I don't know digital video at all.

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:49 am Post subject:

Could it be that the audio is AAC ? That could be troublesome. Try to upload the movie to the editor's ftp area maybe so someone else can have a look. Did you have a look at the presets of Super ? There might be something useful.

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:

If you would just like to upload it, why not simply upload it youtube? They'll compress it for you, turn it into flash that you can embed and host it as well.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:02 am Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:04 am Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

Andrew, sent you a PM.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jan,
I'll get onto this today.