Quicktime for Web?
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- miracola
I have a client that needs some video at their web site. They gave me a miniDV with the video clips and I took it to a friend that just recently bought Avid Xpress Dv 3.5. He was able to export one of the video clips and run it through media cleaner. That brought the six minute clip down to 54 megs. But that is still way too big.
What must I do to bring it down to a few megs and still keep decent quality?
Any help is much appreciated.
Oh yeah, it is video and audio together. They are clips of music videos.
- k770
yo foreal, what do you do?
- Creon0
media cleaner will get it down to a useable size with no problem. just use the quicktime www settings. i have a 7 minute short film at 320x240 with good sound and its only like 9 megs. you just gotta play with media cleaner. its the best way.
- Ctrl_Z0
I'm assuming you brought down the movie size from your NTSC/PAL formats?
did you try rendering
160x120
320x240
you might loose some of the witch from the DV tho.those should bing down the files sizes a bit, just make those fuckers understand it's the web.
- Ctrl_Z0
oops Creon posted before me.
:)
- miracola0
Thanks everyone.
We played around with running it through Media Cleaner a few different ways and I think we got it down as far as it can go and still have somewhat decent quality. A six minute clip is now down to about 5.3 megs. Should be fine. I'll probably offer a better quality clip around 25 megs from the site as well.
I guess we just had to play with it til we got it right. I would rather not have wasted an evening doing it, but now I know what to do.
Thanks again everyone.
- Ctrl_Z0
great :)
it's not a waste if you can walk away knowing somthing new.
- CyBrainX0
Cleaner is a great program. With, Sorenson 3, it's miraculous.
Try offering 3 different sizes. You see it that way quite often.
- chook0
compression is a fine art form. it takes years of practice to master.