How to make movie file size smaller?

[LowryBigwood]

I'm trying to make my first mpeg gallery, and I am attempting to make the video file sizes a little smaller. They are currently 20 second clips, and weight about 2.10MB. I'm looking to get that under 2MB, but am not sure how to do that.

I've tried using TMPGEnc to cut the clips, but it ended up being over 3MB after that. What are you using to cut or make the size of the files smaller? Thanks!

[Lemmy]

You can always use Windows Movie Maker which should easily be able to cut the file size in half with decent quality.

If you want to keep the mpeg format there's Sorenson Squeeze, but it's not free (about $100 I think).

[LowryBigwood]

Thanks Lemmy, I'll give that a shot. :)

[Servhot]

Just decrease the stream for the video and maybe also for the audio. Do not deliver 30 frames per second, reduce it to 25 frames. Usually the video stream for MPEGI is 1150kbits, but you can test a bit with it and move down to 768kbits. Same goes for the audio stream. With TMPGEnc you also have the possibility to do this automatically as you tell TMPGEnc only what the size of the video should be

[LowryBigwood]

Thanks ServHot.

I will try to get more familiar with TMPGEnc, with movie maker, I couldn't seem to make it work. |huh

Thanks for the tips! |thumb

[furrygirl]

I'm actually looking to do the same thing, but haven't given any programs a go. I don't mind spending a couple hundred, but I'd rather avoid paying for a big editing program.

A friend of mine recommended Media Cleaner/Autodesk, has anyone used that? Here's the description (for the Mac version, although I'm sure there's a PC one as well): http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=5562025&siteID=123112 ($600, though!)

[Cleo]

This is what we use.
http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?products_id=2

Works great but it is Mac only.

[furrygirl]

This is what we use.
http://www.popwire.com/product_info.php?products_id=2

Works great but it is Mac only.Interesting, thanks! I'm a Mac girl, so I'll have to ask around about that one. (And it's $500, a bit cheaper than the other one.)

[Cleo]

We were using Compressor which comes with Final Cut Pro but it didn't do widescreen mpegs only 4:3 ones so we got Compression Master which turns out to be a lot faster, has a better interface, and seem to make the files even smaller while keeping them looking better. They have a demo for you to try and it becomes the actually software if you buy a key.