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| the unknown pervert Deactivated User I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06 |  Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 1:33PMYesterday I filmed a tom turkey showing off in front of three hens. I filmed five and half minutes or so of this and the footage is taking up 1.14 GB. I was looking at some deer I shot last year with the same camcorder and a ten minute and twenty second long clip only took up 622 MB. I also shot about 12 or 13 minutes of deer over the weekend and the clip took over 2GB. Why are my clips taking up so much more space now and how do I fix this? [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 6:29PM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 8:25PM Rather than trying to make smaller files, you will someday hate yourself for choosing lower resolution (which gives you smaller files) over good video quality. Things that matter to you, that you're filming for yourself, deserve a setting that equals "SP" (or better if you have the equipment that is capable of benefitting from the "HD-level" files when you view them). Remember, you can always burn up to 4.35 GB (4459 MB) of files to a .25-cent DVD if you need to conserve hard-drive space :) [Link] |
| the unknown pervert Deactivated User I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06 | Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 9:05PM [Link] |
| the unknown pervert Deactivated User I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06 | Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 9:20PM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Apr 21 2009 : 9:36PM Do they allow you to choose what resolution you are uploading (up to the 1 GB limit)? [Link] |
| Jordan1 Member Fishing, a fun hobby! 490 Posts 7/08 | Posted - Apr 22 2009 : 6:15PM [Link] |
| Tech Member Make me a bicycle Clown !!! 35 Posts 4/08 | Posted - Apr 23 2009 : 2:33PM "You should've never trusted hollywood..." [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Apr 23 2009 : 5:26PM You can open a non-copyright protected movie (such as your original home videos) using Nero Recode (part of the Suite). Then, you can edit your movie (selecting the start and stop points) and burn it again at any quality level (in 1% increments) you choose to, to get it under 1 GB. If you really want to get into creating a movie out of many pieces (resulting in a single contiguous movie), you can do that with NeroVision Express. You can then choose to save it at multiple resolutions (equating with EP, LP, SP and HD as found in hardware recorders) in order to get it under 1 GB. Typically, a DVD recorder can record two hours of "SP" level video onto a DVD (which will use about 4.3 GB of space). That's .0358 GB/per minute. So, this means you should be able to have about 27-28 minutes of "SP" quality video and keep it under 1 GB. You must be recording at "HD" quality, and/or having it being expanded to HD during the upload process, to be having a problem keeping it under 1 GB (which is really huge for an Internet video file). [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 3:08AM Edited by - randomprecision on 4/30/2009 3:09:23 AM [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 5:36AM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - May 2 2009 : 1:56AM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - May 2 2009 : 8:13AM [Link] |
| DrP0rn0 Senior Member 1836 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 2 2009 : 4:22PM If so, I'll further presume that your camera is 4x3, and the files are huge, like 1 GB for 4.5 to 5 minutes of video. I personally hate throwing away originals, but if you can live with it, you might try compressing them with XVid for the video and MP3 for the audio. This guide has *most* of the details, including downloading three or four packages that you'll need to get the job done: http://forum.videohelp.com/topic244151.html I think you can skip the first step, as you already have the DV files on your system. I'd try bitrates between 1000 kbps and 2000 kbps for the video and see if you can see any differences between them and the originals. I'd encode like 20 to 60 seconds of video at a time as a test bed, evaluate, adjust, and repeat until I found the right rate. Once you find the right rate, you can save the files as XVid/MP3 AVIs. However, note that VirtualDub has an "add to queue" setting. This queues the job up for later processing. Once you're *sure* about all the videos you want to convert, you can load them up one by one, add them to the queue and move on to the next. Once you've got 5 or 10 or 20, or whatever number of videos queued up, go to job control, and you can start the queue running. They'll crunch away for however long it takes, video by video, until they are done. You may feel some impact as it encodes them. I don't usually see much difference but YMMV. You can always stop (and later restart) the queue if it's impacting the PC. You can even run the whole batch overnight while you're asleep. Hope this helps. Dr. P Edited to increase bitrate range to try. Edited by - drp0rn0 on 5/2/2009 4:46:04 PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - May 4 2009 : 4:12AM [Link] |
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| DrP0rn0 Senior Member 1836 Posts 5/04 | Posted - May 4 2009 : 10:59AM That's extremely surprising, as DV isn't a very good codec. XVID should give you significantly better compression, even at a high bitrate like 2000 or 2500 kbps. Oh well, I tried... Dr. P [Link] |
| Jordan1 Member Fishing, a fun hobby! 490 Posts 7/08 | Posted - May 4 2009 : 12:15PM Now to address your processing concerns. I don't think there is a program out there that won't use a good deal of CPU power to run it unless someone is using a quad core computer meant for professional editing or something. I've mentioned this somewhere in another thread. The technique I use is to restart or turn on the computer, right-click on any programs that aren't needed on the System Tray and shut them down. Especially anti-malware programs as they tend to be the largest resource hog on the System Tray. Once everything is shut down, don't click on anything but what is needed to run the conversion program. I shut down my Internet connection also so I won't get any updates from my anti-mallware program or any other possibility of intrusion. At least on my computer, the reason I do this is because once I open almost anything, even if I completely close out of them afterward, the CPU and PF usage is higher. I try to get these values down as low as possible before starting the editing process. Obviously this is because simply clicking on certain things causes something to run in the background that can't be shutdown in the System Tray. I use the Performance tab in the Task Manager to track all of this. In closing, to my knowledge, you are never supposed to use the computer while doing any editing. If you're only converting a small file, I guess it's okay. Just try to do any major editing or conversion when you don't need to use the computer. [Link] |
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