Compressing Small Videos as Far as they Can go

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Compressing Small Videos as Far as they Can go

Postby The Messiah of Pain » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:10 pm

Ok heres the situation:

I am making a flash clip for a signature on another forum

the size is 320x156 the clip is approx. 30 to 40 seconds long

I need the size of the clip as small as possible because I can't afford to have the clip any larger than 500kb

now heres where it gets tricky..

everytime I compress it I get obsene sizes like 18 megs, 9 megs.. or whichever..

what Can I do from the start of the .mov file (which is the file of the original clip) to the import process in Flash MX, to make it as small as possible, without making it in watchable.. I want to preserve as much quality as possible knowing im going to have to sacrifice some to get the size I need

any and all tips, techniques, plug ins, or whatever I don't know (and I don't know much) would be GREATLY appreciate

thank you.
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Postby Farlo » Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:56 pm

definately use eo-video i got one of my vids for 68 to 31mbs without the loss of quality, and it reads .mov and .rm

http://www.eo-video.com

hope this helps
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Postby Farlo » Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:57 pm

also swish is f'n good for making flash animation

http://www.swish.com
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Postby The Messiah of Pain » Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:57 pm

imma try those out and get back to ya..

thanks much for your reply.
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Postby klinky » Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:20 pm

Not going to happen. Good luck compressing 30 seconds of video to 500KB :\
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Postby The Messiah of Pain » Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:56 pm

klinky wrote:Not going to happen. Good luck compressing 30 seconds of video to 500KB :\


I appreciate the honesty... but I gotta atleast try :\
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Postby Dannywilson » Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:23 pm

I would try dropping it to 10 fps, then throwing it into Jasc's animation shop, converting it to a smaller resolution, and then exporting it into flash.
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Postby jonmartensen » Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:50 pm

Bitmap tracing with a large with color threshold set to 100 :)

Cool effect too. :wink:
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Tue Feb 25, 2003 6:00 am

er.. wait, are we talking video codecs here or what? I'm a n00b when it comes to flash stuff.

EO Video is not really a good compression program...
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Postby The Messiah of Pain » Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:03 am

wow i made it a meg large! (thanks to that EO video compressing program)

thanks alot and I haven't even compressed it in that flash program you told me about

now hopefully it'll compress it to 500 kb (only half way to go) and all will be well :)

thanks alot
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:47 pm

what.. :| what settings in EO video? ... do you want this to be a flash file or a video file? I was under the impression that it had to be a flash file, but if it can be any video file, you can get it down to 480k using rv9 (128kbps) I wouldnt advise anything else for such a low bitrate though..
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Postby The Messiah of Pain » Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:19 pm

RadicalEd0 wrote:what.. :| what settings in EO video? ... do you want this to be a flash file or a video file? I was under the impression that it had to be a flash file, but if it can be any video file, you can get it down to 480k using rv9 (128kbps) I wouldnt advise anything else for such a low bitrate though..


well yes its going to be flash, but.. I still need to import the video :|
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