Vid clips : What are you lot using to compress the size?

[RSV_Ecosse]

Hi all,

Just got a couple of little Keychain Spycameras from eBay. Have used them to take footage facing front and rear on my Aprilia RSV. Will also use them on my weekly commute to see how they are there.

Now, the footage the 11 minute vid clip on my RSV was @930mb in size. What are you lot who regularly upload clips to Youtube etc using to compress the file size down to?.

I tried using Windows Movie Maker, but I heard the results are not that good when compressing vids with it?.

Just wondering how everyone else was doing it?.

Ta.

 

[fossyant]

11 mins 930mb....the Muvi does about that for 30 mins - must be higher res ?

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

720x480 avi apparently?. What does the Muvi do?.

It's one of these #3 Camera types :-

http://www.chucklohr.com/808/#ComparisonOfVersions

The #3 Spy cameras are @£7.99 inc delivery. The footage they record is absolutely outstanding considering the price. Just wanting to make sure i have the ability to convert the file size down to something reasonable in order to upload it now.

 

[thomas]

Stick it in movie maker and export it on the default options. I think it's okay...just do it and see for yourself.

it will probably take a while with your files, so just leave it running in the background

 

[gaz]

my hour commute is just over 6GB

 

[HLaB]

I've compressed files with 'Any Video Converter' in the past but most times I don't bother and just delete old commutes.

 

[HLaB]

my hour commute is just over 6GB

Show's me how crap my ATC is, my 4gb card records around an hour 40

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

my hero cam uses 3.47gb for 1 hr 45 mins. on my 8gb card i can get 4 hrs. i have to change batteries tho. quality is amazing.

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

Quick clip of me on my Aprilia RSV Mille. Really rubbish footage as I had the camera mounted upside down and facing too far down from where it was sat on the chin bar on my helmet. So all you get is footage of me getting my gloves on etc at the start and then footage of the dash and bars of the bike. Lesson learned - be careful where you position the camera next time!!!.

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[BentMikey]

Now that's why I like my VIO - it records a loop, and you can keep a loop when something interesting happens, otherwise it's lost. A 5min loop is 116MB.

 

[chugsy]

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/EN_index.htm

been using this for years... it does it all! (almost)

 

[gaz]

Just looking at how much space i've used with my videos already.. just over 535GB

 

[RSV_Ecosse]

Also, aside from converting these vids and uploading them to Youtube, if you require to host them for others to view where are you lot putting them?. Free hosting like Photobucket as I am using or something else?.

 

[HLaB]

Just looking at how much space i've used with my videos already.. just over 535GB

How far back do your records go I used to file mine by date but now I just delete them if nothing significant happened.

 

[HLaB]

Also, aside from converting these vids and uploading them to Youtube, if you require to host them for others to view where are you lot putting them?. Free hosting like Photobucket as I am using or something else?.

I've tried up loading to Flickr but finds it chops things off and you can only do it free twice a month; so far I've found youtube to be the most flexible.