Reducing a video file disk space

[KillerHERTZ]

Hi,

I have a promotional video clip that someone has made for me, the file is in 2 formats mpg (237mb & AVI 388mb).

I need to upload it to youtube but there is a limit of 100mb per file.

Are there any programs (free) that can reduce its size without losing to much quality? I have PhotoShop CS2 - anyway to do it in that?

Cheers

 

[jpskiller]

Both formats are already compressed, you would either need to resize the video content to make smaller or, use a program to split the content up into smaller files

 

[eGuru]

Are you using a PC are Mac?

 

[KillerHERTZ]

PC...

I have it on a DVD aswell, with all the .dat files and the like (I know nothing about video editing)

 

[masqueraid]

Try DVDShrink to reduce the size of the DVD video (you can specify what size you want the output file) but you will inevitably lose a lot in reducing it by 60%

 

[eGuru]

Quicktime Pro is great for compressing video. There is a PC version for £20 here:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=6C04E07A&nplm=D3381[/URL]

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Cheers, but if I cant find one for free Ill have to ask the guy who created it to make a new one.

DVD strink can only take it to 132mb

 

[SEM]

Try Bink and Smacker, you should be able to resize and drop frames with this prog, used a lot in games and you can adjust your compresssion, only saves as avi last time i used it... may have been updated
http://www.radgametools.com/

If you do use it.... use the microsoft codec for compression as eveyone uses although you'll get a big list of codecs

 

[masqueraid]

You can run DVDShrink on it's own output