David_Moen

Hi all you video gurus!

I have a 80 MB, high quality video file (mpg) that I want to crunch down to a more web friendly site. Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this?

IA-Flyer

Windows Media Encoder is a free download and does a nice job, but it’s not very user friendly at first.

I’m not sure if Movie Maker in XP will convert an MPEG file to windows media (*.wmv) or not because I don’t use it, but media encoder will for sure.

There are programs you could buy, but if you don’t need to edit and just want to convert media encoder works great and has lots of options.

[link=http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx]Windows Media Encoder[/link]

Jim

David_Moen

Thanks! That worked great, took it down to 16MB from 80 with very good results for what I need.

View the results at:

http://mvvs-canada.com/videos.htm

Fubar-One

My Feedback: (1)

Well, IM impressed.
What did you originally create the mpg with and which of the two mentioned programs did you use to render it down to 16 megs?
The flying impressed me too, by the way! I wish I lived where something that big could be flown but its NOT doable at my field.

IA-Flyer

Glad it worked out David,
When I'm on high speed again I'll take a look at the big one you did, but the small mpeg looked great.
Beautiful flying!
Nice!

David_Moen

I don't know who the pilot is, I wish I could take credit. The video came to me on a CD from MVVS. The footage was taken near Brno in the Czech Republic. I just wanted to post it on my site so I didn't have to argue with the fellows that keep telling me there is no way you can fly a 35% airplane on a 58cc engine!