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Old 29-01-2005   #5 (permalink)
picti
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Re: Shrinking dvd files for email?

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Originally Posted by radman64
Anyone know what I can use to cut a specific portion of a video, shrink it and send it via email. I tried shrink but a two minute clip came out 90mb.
1st post here (came for firmware advice - but stumbled into here)

Moving large files on the internet sometimes requires some lateral thinking.

2 minutes of DVD is always going to be too large to email no matter how you compress it. In fact a lot of ISP's and IT Managers are now placing 10Mb limits on attachmnet sizes.

Software aside if you can re-capture the footage at 1/4 size it should be mailable, or alternatively set up an FTP Server and get the other person to download it from your PC/Server (if you have a large webspace you could upload it there and get the other person to download it - thats what we do).

If the other person only needs to see the footage you could convert it to a 'streaming' format so they can just watch it online.

Hope this gives you some ideas...
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