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jasonhikeoregon
4th of January 2009 (Sun), 20:47
I am new to this forum and photography in general. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

My wife would like to be able to email short AVI format videos taken on her Digital Elf Powershot ST790 IS.

We tried to email some files that were from 15-18 MB each and they were bounced back as non-deliverable.

I called comcast and they have a max. email limit of 7.6 MB.

I know that we can use Win-Zip to compress the files, but the email recipients aren't that great with computers and may not be able to un-zip the files.

My question is: Is there a way to take lesser quality movies on the digital Elf, in the hope that it will require less memory..so that we can email them without compressing the file ?

I didn't see any explanation about this in the user manual.

thanks !! Jason.
hawkeye60
4th of January 2009 (Sun), 20:55
If they are AVI Windows Movie Maker should be able to open them, and you can downsize them for emailing.
bjordan
4th of January 2009 (Sun), 22:31
I second Windows Movie Maker. I doubt WinZip would be able to make it any smaller anyway, since it is already in a compressed format.
jasonhikeoregon
5th of January 2009 (Mon), 18:32
I second Windows Movie Maker. I doubt WinZip would be able to make it any smaller anyway, since it is already in a compressed format.


Thanks to you both.... I believe that worked. Thanks again, Jason.
chronos3d
17th of January 2010 (Sun), 22:14
Not sure if Hawkeye meant downsizing to mean reducing resolution or encoding to a new format. I have a Canon SX120IS and the video files are HUGE... about 90megs a minute. I have no desire to fill up my hard drive with these files. So I compress them at full resolution to H264... currently the best compression format out there. While my Canon AVI files are a pain to work with, see
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=810298
I can compress them to about 15% of their original size using a program called TMPGEnc. It’s hardly free but there must be other options. Before this… just last fall, I owned a Kodak camera which I returned, that also produced these monstrous motion jpeg files. I was able to use a free program called HandBrake to compress them.