what do I use to get a large file sized vid down to sharable size without KILLING the picture quality? Is a super duper video editing program needed? I have the program that came with the camera...it turns a 1minute 50second 421MB AVI clip into a 19MB MPEG that looks like ****. I see ppl have vids that are over ten minutes long and are about 50-70MB or so...and they dont look bad. I shot a 14 minute clip and it was 3.98GB. anybody know what i need?

 

Have you tried importing the clip into windows movie maker and saving it through that? You can choose what size/quality you want to save it at.

 

nope havent tried that. dont think i have windows movie maker. I have a trial version of Abobe Premier Elements 4. working with it for an hour, still dont see how to do it...ive been to every option, command...etc. The vid is on my HD already if that matters.

 

All version of Windows XP come with WMM, go to start->All Programs and look for Windows Movie Maker, if it's not in the main list it may be in Accessories.

All you do is open up WMM, drag and drop your clip into the window, put it in the timeline, and go to "Save Movie File," you can also add transitions/credits and title screens and stuff like that if you want to, as well as somewhat edit the clip itself.

 

yup...just finished using it...haha didnt realize I had it...lol. Thanks for the wake up Pcola.

 

that might work or u need another compression program... movie maker will prob work tho

 

Yup

 

yeah what pcola said. Also have you looked through the camera settings to see how it is writing the video the card or whatever. Alot of times you can change the format it writes in so it saves space. At least I can on my digital camera.

 

dunno, but Im using DV tape.