exporting avi files?

[JeriEN]

I have been trying all day to compress the avi movie files. I am only taking an 8 sec. movie and have changed all of the settings on the camera in the movie settings to the lowest possible (15fps) and still it is a 40 MB file. Can someone please help me?

[kona77]

JeriEN,
Get your file to your hard drive. Then use one of many free programs that will convert your file to what ever you wish, mpg, wmv, etc.

Quicktime Pro will convert if for you as well as this link.

http://www.flydragonsoft.com/avi-mpg-converter.htm


Good Luck

[JeriEN]

Thanks!
I will give it a try.

[teekay]

WARNING!

I went to the link for the AVI converter posted above and try to download it and it immediately set off multiple warnings from my antivirus software.

[kona77]

Hmm, I didn't get that teekay. Thanks for the warning.

For a very good site with some valuable information go to

http://www.videohelp.com/

[Robert_Lay]

I don't think you are recording what you think you are recording.
On my G5, 8 seconds video clip is characterized as 88 kbps, 320 x 240 and 1.39 MB.

So, your figure of 40 MB is completely unreasonable. Perhaps you should re-do and re-think the entire matter, because your numbers are not consistent with a normal video clip, regardless of the possible options.

[kona77]

Robert,
This is difficult without knowing exactly which format it is currently in. She may have a file that large but it is a master raw file on her camera. If she simply moves it to her hard drive it may well be 40mb. Once the conversion takes place then she should have the smaller file like you have.

[SaNdMaN82]

Originally Posted by teekay

WARNING!

I went to the link for the AVI converter posted above and try to download it and it immediately set off multiple warnings from my antivirus software.

Originally Posted by kona77

Hmm, I didn't get that teekay. Thanks for the warning.(...)

Actually yes, the file is "infected". It's not a virus, but it's ad-ware. That's the cost that we have to pay for "free" software... And i have to say, pretty lame they don't say a damn thing on that site about that...

Here's my anti-virus log:

12/04/2007 05:47:53 p.m.
Malicious HTTP object <http://www.flydragonsoft.com/software/avitompeg15.exe/WISE0014.BIN>: detected riskware not-a-virus:AdTool.Win32.VB.e.

[Robert_Lay]

Originally Posted by kona77

Robert,
This is difficult without knowing exactly which format it is currently in. She may have a file that large but it is a master raw file on her camera. If she simply moves it to her hard drive it may well be 40mb. Once the conversion takes place then she should have the smaller file like you have.

SFAIK, there is no such thing as RAW video clips - they download from the camera as .AVI files.

[kona77]

Originally Posted by Robert_Lay

SFAIK, there is no such thing as RAW video clips - they download from the camera as .AVI files.

Actually Robert, I mean they are in their native format, ie, raw, not RAW as in photo file. So they can be raw files.

They do not always download as avi files, there are numerous formats to download them as. Avi is just one format.
avi -mpeg1 -mpeg2-mpeg4 or DivX- WMV-ASF etc.

[Robert_Lay]

Originally Posted by kona77

Actually Robert, I mean they are in their native format, ie, raw, not RAW as in photo file. So they can be raw files.

They do not always download as avi files, there are numerous formats to download them as. Avi is just one format.
avi -mpeg1 -mpeg2-mpeg4 or DivX- WMV-ASF etc.

What Canon G series camera does that?

The only video file formats used by Canon G series cameras, so far as I know, are .avi.

[drisley]

Get Virtualdub, and the divx codec. They are both free, and will allow you to convert the file to a more manageable size

[kona77]

Originally Posted by Robert_Lay

What Canon G series camera does that?

The only video file formats used by Canon G series cameras, so far as I know, are .avi.

They do not record as actual AVI.
AVI (Motion JPEG) with audio
1024x768 and 640x480
Max. frame-rate: 15 frames per second
This is a compressed format. There is NO WAY a G series camera can record straight AVI files. It takes to much space for it's purposes.

AUDIO and VIDEO CODECS
- Video for Windows compressors and decompressors
WHAT THEY ARE, WHERE TO GET THEM, WHICH WORK BEST!
- The Old Guard
- Full Frames (Uncompressed)
- Color Formats
- Intel Real Time Video 2.1 (Indeo 2.1?) (RT21)
- Indeo 3.2/3.1
- Microsoft Run Length Encoding
- Microsoft Video 1
- Cinepak
- Motion JPEG
- Editable MPEG
- The New Wave
- VDOWave (VDOLive)
- Indeo Video Interactive (Indeo 4.1)
- Indeo Video Interactive (Indeo 5.x)
- ClearVideo (aka RealVideo)
- SFM (Surface Fitting Method)
- QPEG
- H.261
- H.263
- Microsoft H.263 (M263)
- Vivo Software H.263
- Intel I263 H.263 (I263)
- Shannon Communication Systems (SCS) H.263+
- Telenor R&D H.263
- Xirlink H.263 Video Codec (X263)
- MPEG-4
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 (MP43)
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 2 (MP42)
- Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 1 (MPG4)
- DivX MPEG-4 (DIV3)
- DivX MPEG-4 (DIV4)
- AngelPotion MPEG-4 (AP41)
- Lightning Strike (Infinop)
- Aware Motion Wavelets Video Codec
- VxTreme
Motion JPEG is used for editing and authoring, but rarely for
distribution. Usually, once the video has been edited, it is
compressed further using Cinepak or another codec for distribution.
Because Motion JPEG does not use frame differencing or motion
estimation, better compression is possible with other codecs.

[Robert_Lay]

There must be some serious communication difficulty here.
My G5 Specifications, directly out of the user's guide are as follows:
Movies: AVI (Image data: Motion JPEG,
Audio data: WAVE [Monaural])
Number of Recording pixels:
Movie: 320 x 240 pixels
Approx. 15 frames/second.

And, yes, AVI is a compressed format, so it comes out being a much smaller file than it would as uncompressed raw information. So, as I said originally, my camera produces a file of only 1.39 MB for 8 seconds of recording, and that is what it downloads as a .avi file. I can't imagine why you want to argue about it with me - your argument is apparently with Canon - it's their camera and their specifications printed in their manual.

[kona77]

 Movie: 320 x 240 pixels
Approx. 15 frames/second.

That is in camera. When it is transfered to the HD it depends on which codec is being used to make the movie readable on the HD.

AVI is not always compressed and that may be her problem.

I can't imagine why you want to argue about it with me

Well, I want to make sure the OP has the correct information.

SFAIK, there is no such thing as RAW video clips

Then you state.

uncompressed raw information

So I was correct.
As in my previous statement, just making sure the OP and you have the correct info.