Make 1 GB to MBs?

Question

I finish a movie that turns out to be 1.8 GBS, I wanna upload it to a site which only allows a maximum 200 MBs. Is there a program I can use to make a new file of the movie but in a smaller size?

The moviei s 5 minutes.

Here's more info. I am trying to enter it into the On The Lot contest and I used Roxio to put it together.

The movie what a Genetric AVI or something like that.

Answer 1

Not for anything that big!

Answer 2

A movie that is only 5 minutes should not take 1.8GBs. You can convert the movie to a smaller file size by decreasing the resolution and bit-rate, and perhaps the framerate to 30 fps if it's higher for any reason.

Then, I would encode the movie with DivX, which will decrease the file size even more significantly. You can probably get it to about 50-60MBs with some work.

Answer 3

We need more info.

Is the 1.8GB the movie compressed? Is it already MPG or is it a raw non-compressed AVI? If it is an MPG, then there is not much that you can do, other than reducing the frame size down and using Windows Movie Maker to make a fairly good WMV file.

Are you going to have RapidShare host the large files?

Answer 4

Yep, sounds to me like this in an uncompressed raw video format. Try using your editor to save it in an MPEG-4 format, and see about dropping the resolution as well. If you don't need it to be clear full-screen, you can get by with a much smaller video size. There's no way a 5-minute compressed video file should be that large. Tweak the settings and compression and you'll get it down there. . .

Answer 5

You can try dividing up the movie and uploading certain scenes you like because 1 gigabyte is 1000 MB

Answer 6

http://www.virtualdub.org/

This free application will shrink the file by reducing the quality / resolution. I think that you will have a hard time getting the file down that small though.

Answer 7

Zip perhaps?