Making a video: Help

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ok. if this has already been posted i'm sorry, don't flame me.

i'm thinking about making a video but unsure as to how. i don't have any of those video capture, xport things. all i've been doing is pointing my digital camera at the TV and taking short clips of my drifts. each clip is about 7 MB. so here's my question. when i put it all together is it gonna be like 100,000 MB's??

i mean, i want to keep it under 15 MB's if possible. what editing programs do you guys recommend. has anyone ever made a video by only using a digital camera? any tips would be great.

 

[battle_stage]

Just save it as a lower wuality, that'll lower the file size.

 

[exhaust_note]

100,000 MB, will that even fit on ur comp. who many gigs is that...

 

[pergatory]

As far as I can tell, the standard is about 10 megs per minute. If you're somewhere in that neighborhood, it's definetely acceptable. Odds are that your digital camera is not recording at super high quality anyway, so if you lower the quality of the video you probably won't even notice the difference. If your program has a setting for VCD quality that's what I use and I think most people use.

 

[battle_stage]

100,000MB is 100GB

 

[[Jetstorm]-R]

Originally posted by battle_stage
100,000MB is 100GB

my HD isn't even that big!

 

[battle_stage]

Mine is only 33GB, 12GB is already filled....

 

[[Jetstorm]-R]

Originally posted by battle_stage
Mine is only 33GB, 12GB is already filled....

mine's a 65 GB NTFS.. .. anyway.. it is just impossible to have 100GB video.. unless it is like 2-3 hours long..

 

[battle_stage]

2-3 hours long isn't even that big. 100GB would go on for days.

 

[[Jetstorm]-R]

Originally posted by battle_stage
2-3 hours long isn't even that big. 100GB would go on for days.

yeah true.. MONTHS!

 

[battle_stage]

Actually, it should go for about 28 days straight assuming every 50MB equals 20min of video.

 

[[Jetstorm]-R]

I shall quote myself..

Originally posted by [Jetstorm]-R
yeah true.. MONTHS!

Originally posted by battle_stage
Actually, it should go for about 28 days straight assuming every 50MB equals 20min of video.

 

[19xx]

Hate to break everyone's heart, but in professional standard an 100GB hard drive should go a bit under 3 hours. Everything has to be uncompressed. You'll also need a crapload of ram (1GB min) for faster retrival of files and dual processing CPUs for faster video editing. Enter Macintosh G4

As for the original question, quickest way to downsize files is to get virtualdub (http://www.virtualdub.org) and DivX 4 codec (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec4.html). Load the movie, set the compression from uncompressed to DivX 4, and save as a separate AVI. If you need help let me know.

 

[toyomatt84]

No offense 19xx, but my laptop performs better then any G4 I have ever toyed with. I got a Pre-Alienware, what I mean is, that it is the product Alienware buys. Basically, I just saved a ton o' dough by doing this. I have that gig o ram, plus my Pent 4 is overclocked to 3.6 and since the fastest the G4 has ever gone with the duals is 3.4, I win there. Plus I got 80 gigs harddrive space, a DVD burner and a CD burner. If you don't believe me, go to www.powernotebooks.com and look under the 15'' screen ones. I believe its the 2nd or 3rd from the top. It cost me 3200 with a 3 yr warranty as well.

 

[TingBoy]

i have a 120 GB hd....=P

 

[19xx]

Man toyo, either you're a hardcore computer gamer, or you've hit the lottery. Alienware stuff are pretty much top-of-the-line, but it's too expensive for me. 17" Powerbook G4s are around the same price as your laptop, but they're more stable, functionable and attention whore-y than PC laptops in every way. I "rented" an iBook for about a month, and I would buy it had the processor wasn't so pitifully slow. OSX is the SHIZNIT. Although I now have a Sony Vaio, $1300 dollars, enough to do most things with a AMD 2.0, even video editing. This thing got no warranties... but it's reliable... it has been hit hard on concrete floor once and it still function 100%.

Edit: Powerbook G4s have 80GB maximum, but it's not upgradeable.

 

[Ark]

As earlier stated by battle, lowering the quality will shoot that filesize down like a bad metaphor over... yeah. It'll reduce it nicely. Alternatively, if you're using something nice like Adobe Premiere, no idea if Windows Movie Maker can do this, you can save the file using the divx video codec. That'll also reduce the size by a really huge amount.

As for PC specs, er. Let's see...
2.4 ghz P4
1024mb ram
Radeon9600 PRO
2X Maxtor 80gb hdd.

Et cetera, et cetera. I'm not about to go off and jerk about listing off all sorts of other crap like my monitor, mouse and keyboard (which are all forgettably average, sans the speakers.) Put together myself. It feels so much more like an achievement that way. But bajeesus, I need to try and clock the cpu up to what Toyomatt has got it. God, I love having money

And with that, the topic derails further! Yay!

 

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lol. i was only being sarcastic when i said it would be over 100,000 MB's long. i didn't mean to get everyone all worked up . thanks for the responses though. if i need any more help you guys will be the first to know