Compacting video files
 

Hi guys -- I've got some video files that are recorded with my mom's camera that are really huge (60 MB), and she wants to email them to people who have hotmail, and can only receive files under 10 MB. I tried converting them from AVI to MPEG-4 format, and that got me really close, it's now 15MB (well, oddly enough, one of them went from 62 MB to 15 MB, and the other one went from 66 MB to 6 MB). Does anyone know how I can get this thing down to 10 MB?

Probably the easiest thing is to open it in Windows Movie Maker, Import the media and then drag it to the timeline at the bottom.

Go to publish, and select to a file on your computer. It then gives you compression options where you can tell it how big of a file you want to output.

Of course WMM will also let you do some basic editing things to it also, which you may like as well.

I think every XP/Vista install comes with WMM by default.

Further, if you don't like how the video looks after compression, you can always divide into pieces with WMM that are small enough to send if you want.

Go to publish?

Yeah. There's a button to publish the movie (which just means output it basically and then you choose where to output it to).

I found a link that said save to computer, which probably did the same thing. Thanks!

Could you just put them up on Vimeo or Youtube? That way, they don't need to download anything.

What Kooter said. Should be easy to just upload it to youtube.

She wanted to email them, instead of putting them online somewhere. The Movie Maker worked perfectly, though.