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Posted by beejaysoo on September 20, 2007, 5:20 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi Tom...thanks again
I have Windows Vista Movie Maker but it rejected the video based on
the low quality of it so I guess I'll just use the webcam for what it
was intended....video conferencing....and not try and make little
video clips and using it as a video camera which it is obviously not.
bj
> .AVI is not a format - it is a container. An .AVI file can contain video
> in one of a number of different formats. In your case, from the
> information you supplied it would seem that your .AVI is a DV (Digital
> Video) file.
>
> To convert this to DVD as you suggest would require you to purchase a
> conversion program.
>
> As I said before, if you are using Windows XP-SP2 or later you can
> covert your video with the included Windows Movie Maker and obtain a
> much smaller file to email.
>
> wrote:
>
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>
> >Thanks Tom,
>
> >Doesn't look like I have an option to change to another format, so I
> >guess I am stuck with .AVI. Do you know what the advantages of .AVI
> >are? Would you have any suggestions on how I could change format
> >from.AVI to perhaps MPEG-2?
>
> >Thanks,
>
> >bj
>
> >> It depends on the format of your video. If you outputted an .AVI in DV
> >> (Digital Video) format, 90 seconds would use about 377 MB. DVD format
> >> (MPEG-2) would be about 1/10th of that ,and MPEG-4 format (such as Divx
> >> & Xvid) would be about 1/60th of your 377MB.
>
> >> Formats such as .WMV could be even smaller and can be created easily
> >> using the free MS Windows Movie Maker.
>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> >I recorded a short 90 sec. video using my Toshiba built-in webcam.
> >> >The quality of the video is not that good....I guess that is typical
> >> >for small webcams, but....the file size for the 90 sec clip seems
> >> >extremely large at 377MB!!! Is that typical? Short clip, low
> >> >quality, large file? It's even hard to email that size of a file which
> >> >I thought was one of the features of the webcam. Any comments.
>
> >> >Thanks,
>
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