Destroyer Member Posts: 31 From: Bismarck, ND Registered: 10-06-2002 |
does anyone know of someplpace free to host a 765 MB file? my friends band made a music video and thats the size of it zipped in avi format. and they want to have it available for download |
rowanseymour Member Posts: 284 From: Belfast, Northern Ireland Registered: 02-10-2001 |
I don't think many people are going to wait for a 765MB download. Is this a video for one song ? If so you could try better video compression. A well compressed video shouldn't need zipped. ------------------ |
BKewl Member Posts: 144 From: St. Charles, MO, USA Registered: 07-10-2002 |
Try MPEG 1 compression. It compresses a ~5 minute 320x240 music video to ~50MB. Use TMPGENC (http://www.tmpgenc.net/), it's good stuff. |
BlazeQ Member Posts: 260 From: USA Registered: 05-11-2002 |
The best compressor out there is http://www.divx.com (it's free!) If that doesn't lower the size much then you may need to lower the resolution. BlazeQ ------------------ |
SLAM Member Posts: 36 From: Miami, FL Registered: 12-29-2002 |
Yeah...AVI is more or less a dead format because it's so huge. I agree, you need to compress it with MPEG before it's hosted. If you want to buy good webhosting that gives ou no (set) restrictions on webspace or bandwidth usage, I suggest you check out http://www.hostonce.com. I have my personal site there, and so far, they haven't let me down. Better read the ToS good though, and ask them any questions you have about hosting video/music content. ------------------ What part of that do some people not understand? He who dies with the most frags wins, |
Mack Administrator Posts: 2779 From: Registered: 01-20-2001 |
quote: Wowza! ------------------ |
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Destroyer Member Posts: 31 From: Bismarck, ND Registered: 10-06-2002 |
yeah, i dont have anything to compress it to mpg and it is on my youth pastors computer |
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SLAM Member Posts: 36 From: Miami, FL Registered: 12-29-2002 |
Man...you won't even be fitting that on a CD unless it's zipped...how long is this thing, and how did it get to be so big :-|? I'll let you know if I see any good MPEG encoders. ------------------ What part of that do some people not understand? He who dies with the most frags wins, |
CobraA1 Member Posts: 926 From: MN Registered: 02-19-2001 |
http://www.host-grid.com/ |
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Destroyer Member Posts: 31 From: Bismarck, ND Registered: 10-06-2002 |
quote: it is 765 megs zipped. adobe captures in avi default, i don tknow if i can change that either |
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SLAM Member Posts: 36 From: Miami, FL Registered: 12-29-2002 |
But...how long is the movie, and what resolution? ------------------ What part of that do some people not understand? He who dies with the most frags wins, |
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BlazeQ Member Posts: 260 From: USA Registered: 05-11-2002 |
quote: Adobe what? Premiere? With DivX you can take an avi and encode it and get much smaller file sizes. Save a backup and try several different quality settings. Download it here: http://www.divx.com ------------------ |
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Destroyer Member Posts: 31 From: Bismarck, ND Registered: 10-06-2002 |
quote: Adobe what? Premiere? yeah premier 6.1 i belive is what she has on it [/B][/QUOTE] |
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BlazeQ Member Posts: 260 From: USA Registered: 05-11-2002 |
Premiere comes with a number of codecs that you can use. But DivX is the best. Download the free version and install it. Then open the avi in Premiere. Go to File->Export->Movie. Click on Settings and select Video from the dropdown. Then choose DivX in the compressor dropdown. Mess with the settings if you want and then save it as *yourmovie*.avi Viewers must have the DivX codec, but it is very widespread and if they don't have it then they can download it. ------------------ [This message has been edited by BlazeQ (edited January 02, 2003).] |
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BlazeQ Member Posts: 260 From: USA Registered: 05-11-2002 |
You could also select a different codec using the steps above, like Quicktime. But DivX will compress it up to about 3 times smaller than Quicktime and 10 times smaller than MPEG-2 (regular AVI). ------------------ |
