hey guys a have this performance which i wanna put on theory11 and its 3 and a half minutes and the maximum here is 35mb and mine is 80mb and i rlly wanna put it and ive seen other vids who are long and they still get put on so what should i do?
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Although irrelevant I am also quite intrigued. To answer the question at hand, simply upload the video to youtube and link to it in the upload forum.
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Save it in MPEG format instead. It's much more efficient. The file extension you choose has a dramatic effect on the size of the file.
Irrelevant nothing. File extension makes a difference in the size of the file like I just said. Some are much larger than others because they preserve more data. A slight downgrade in quality is the trade-off for manageable disc space. It's the same reason that people who construct websites tend to use .jpeg and .gif file extensions for images instead of .tif and .psd extensions.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but I'm a filmmaker. It's my job to know this ****.
The fact remains that if you're trying to upload a video for showing off at Theory 11 and 3 and a half minutes translate to 80 megs, you're using the wrong file format. Upload it to YouTube and provide a link? Why create extra steps? Just save it in MPEG. Problem solved in one step.
I sometimes wonder why I bother trying to help when no one can be bothered to listen and just continue to perpetuate the myth that YouTube is the solution to everything.
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Hey man, just a quick question. Although I did know that different file extensions create different sizes, I didn't know that you could simply change the extension like you could with other files like documents and photos. I thought you needed some sort of converter. If I'm wrong then I'll feel stupid for spending $30 on a video converter. Thanks in advance, I appreciate all the help and criticism you give on the forums. Oh man it's late, good night.
To go from .avi to .mpg you would need a video converter, but you didn't need to spend $30 on one
There are some great free ones out there like Format Factory
To go from .avi to .mpg you would need a video converter, but you didn't need to spend $30 on one
This.
Personally, I prefer to just save myself the time and use an editing program to dump and put together the footage then export it to MPEG.
So like take the video/videos and put it onto something like Windows Movie Maker and just make it into an MPEG that way?
Exactly.
Granted, I use Adobe Premier, but any video editing software has an Export feature. That's what allows you to convert the editor's specific file extension to a conventional one for media players. There's about 2 dozen to pick from give or take, but my experience is the MPEG4 is the best. It plays on everything and has a reasonably low file size. You sacrifice a little bit of quality just as you would saving a picture as a JPEG instead of a TIFF file, but that's the way it goes.