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I come now to Hatrack, the font of all knowledge trivial and technical.
I need to add several video clips (each 2-3 minutes in length) to a project, and I need their file sizes to be as small as I can make them (I understand it will not be SMALL, per se...but as small as I can get them would be good).
What's the best format for this?
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What kind of project is it? I mean, what exactly are you putting these clips into? Powerpoint? A CD? What?
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I'm learning to use Director, and the ultimate goal for the clips is for them to be part of a project in Director. It doesn't have to be particularly professional, just small enough to be able to store all clips on the same portable media (CD, if it must be; jump drive if I can get them small enough).
I've made DVDs before taking clips from a VHS tape (using iMovie--hooray for video-editing for dummies!). Now, however, I'm using clips ripped off a DVD. The program I'm using will store them in a wide variety of formats. I started out turning them into .avi files, but the files are really huge. I don't know much at all about digital video, and was trying to find out what the most compressed format would be.
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Your best bet may be MPEG-4... I'm not sure if Quicktime Pro comes with that standard or not. If not, try the options in quicktime pro, there is a plethora of different codecs available, one of them should suit your needs!
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Quicktime movies in Director worked well for me. I can't remember how many I tried to fit on one project, probably less than four. But you can always decrease the size and quality of the clip for a smaller file.
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Yeah, my next idea was to take one of the clips and convert it to several different formats and see which one ended up being the smallest. I was hoping hatrack would help me avoid that, though.
I did try converting one of the avi files to .mov earlier today...it trimmed 3 MB. eh.
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Not only does quicktime come with MPEG-4 support, its apple's preferred new format (and quicktime has one of the best codecs for it).
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