ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

well good

when you figure it out craft, can you post yours too?

anyone have one of my final run where it got the 359?

[Edited by ChristianR - 7/5/2002 10:17:43 AM]

CRAFT

How do I put up video clip, say on here?
Any help appreciated

CRAFT

peccy

craft,

good to see ya sunday matey,

the way i publish vids (probably not the best way?) is like so:

upload the clip to some webspace (noticed you use the turbosport uploader for the images, i dont think they allow video clips though)

then cut and paste the link on scoobynet using the URL tags.

eg...
http://www.dubdesign.free-online.co....Lane258bhp.avi

(10meg! cos dont know how to optimise the clips to mpeg or whatever)

if this is not possible then email me the clip (only got about 8 meg free in my mailbox though) and ill upload onto my webspace and post you the link.

cheers, peccy.


[Edited by peccy - 7/2/2002 9:53:17 AM]

[Edited by peccy - 7/2/2002 9:54:27 AM]

boomer

CRAFT,

before you even think about it, bear in mind two things...

1) Video is BIG (you might think that it is a long way to your corner shop, but that is peanuts to video!) so you will need a lot of space on your chosen web-server.

2) Video means BIG bandwidth, and most ISPs will restrict your site bandwidth to so many megabytes per day/week - if you exceed that then they may suspend your service.

Why not have a play with Video CD (if you have a CD-RW) to author your videos for viewing and distribution - or even DVD?

See http://www.vcdhelp.com/ for info.

Cheers,

mb

CRAFT

Boomer, thanks for those words of wisdom, as per usual, I haven't a fcukin' clue what you're on about So, posting vids is not as easy as posting pictures. Got a clip of the mini flame out(squib)from well lane last sunday, and was thinking if I can figure it out, maybe get some "wales camping trip" footage up, you know the one I mean

Peccy, thanks for the offer m8, I'll bear it in mind.

CRAFT

boomer

CRAFT,

a few bits of info. First, video is BIG - oh, i have already said that

If the stuff is coming off your digital camcorder, it will almost certainly be in DV format. This stores each frame as a separate picture - just like a film movie. These frames are individually compressed, so think of it as a sequence of JPEG pictures (at 25 per second).

For viewing on a PC you will need to convert them to another format.

MPEG1 is yer typical PC movie format, and not only has each frame compressed, but it compresses between frames (because often much of the background doesn't actually change).

MPEG2 is a more modern version of MPEG1, which allows better compression, and is used as the format for DVD disk movies - but can't be read by all PCs/Macs.

There is also AVI, DIVX (or MPEG4) and MOV (QuickTime), plus various others with special "codecs" (compressor/decompressors) - but probably best to stick to MPEG1 for general use.

Thus you will need a converter (see http://www.vcdhelp.com/convert.htm) for ideas and applications.

As a test (using Toast Titanium on and Apple Mac G4), i just converted a 44 second clip from DV to MPEG1 (at 340*240 pixels), and the size went from 153MB down to 7.5MB. Thus you can estimate how big your clip will be.

But like i said, if, say, 140 people decide to download a similar sized video, that will be a GIGABYTE of bandwidth. Think about that in terms of your dialup

VCD is bascially a standard that allows many devices to view MPEG movies that are stored on a CD. It is supposed to work on DVD players, PCs etc - but sadly it doesn't work on any of mine. You could, however, just copy the converted MPEGs to a CD-R and post the thing to your mates

mb

IanW

I have just taken a 5Mb AVI file of my car on the rollers @ PE and made it a 200k file with sound using Windows Movie Maker in XP.

HGV1 Driver

" just copy the converted MPEGs to a CD-R and post the thing to your mates" This is what i do with all my film from my sony digital camcorder, it saves on tapes as very expensive.
Useful infomation on site too, thanks.

Jon.

boomer

...following on from what Ian said, you can make the files smaller (whether AVI, MPEG or whatever) by either:

Reducing the resolution - e.g. from 340*240 to 170*120, which will make the picture smaller (or more "blocky" if you re-size upwards) but the file will be a quarter of the original size. However, don't forget that even 340*240 is around one tenth the area of a typical PC screen, so don't shrink it too much!

Compressing more - which results in a more blury picture, especially if there is a lot of movement. This is where MPEG2 is useful, because it can vary compression mid-video for the more active bits - but as i said earlier, this is not such a common format for PCs.


Oh, and all this assumes that you have the various wires to connect your camera to your PC/Mac, plus some software to edit out the desired sequences!!

mb

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

did anyone record my scooby on the rollers on the day?

CRAFT

Only got about 20secs of it on the rollers, when you had to get
in the boot If I suss this video thingy out I'll put it up, if thats ok?

CRAFT

peccy

..... from 10Mb to 1.5Mb (using windows XP Movie Maker)
http://www.dubdesign.free-online.co....Lane300602.WMV

heres you christian...
http://www.dubdesign.free-online.co....Lane300602.WMV

sorry Craft, didnt catch your flame.