Hey all! I've been making AMVs for a little while, but there's still a lot of information to wrap my head around. I'm at a bit of a dead end, so I thought I'd ask here for opinions on how to proceed.
When I first started out, I was using Windows Movie Maker, and using A&E's guide to try and do everything correctly. Unfortunately, even if everything else was correct, there's no getting past WMM's awful export options. You have a series of poor-quality WMV options, or the enormous DV-AVI option that actually spits out decent quality.
I'd like to upload this video to the org, as it's my favorite of all the videos I've done. However, it's 5:30 long, and was a gig coming out of WMM, so I used TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 to convert it to an mpeg2. This brought it down to about 400 megs, but as I peruse the forums, I see that this is basically enormous and nooby. (I had a large filesize upload request filed a month ago, but I'm not holding out any more hope of that getting greenlit).
So what are my options? What else can I do, given a 1 gig DV-AVI fresh out of WMM and access to TMPGEnc Plus 2.5, the AMVApp, and anything freely available, to get this video down to org-acceptable levels? Many, many thanks for any and all assistance.
