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I'm trying to upload a video, in the .avi format. However, it is over 200 MB large and will take more than an hour to upload? How can I reduce its size? Should I save it as MPEG or what else?

I have converted the video to the .MPEG format and its size is now "only" 19 MB.

also. I URGE you to cut it into small pieces. Nobody watches long long long videos unless they are really intended to be story driven great movies.

If you are referring to my video, don't worry: it was less than 2 minutes long! It must be the high resolution or my digital camera that make it big. I have uploaded another video too, and it works!

Fabulous! Can't wait to see it!

Guys, may I ask a very dumb question please? I am completely new in this video thing and don't have a single clear idea of the formats and how to transform one into another.
I took a video in Gubbio, 34 seconds, .MOV format and 20 MB.
I guess, I cannot upload it that big and in the .MOV format, do I?
If not - what can I do?

Thanks :-)
Ingrid, the dumby :-)

You can upload it, but you probably shouldn't. .mov works on VT - it's just a tricky file type for the encoder so it takes longer, but 20 MB is huge. I'd compressed them and or cut them up to smaller sizes.

Do you mean that 20 MB is huge for us to upload or for the VT server? I'm asking that because, as I said, the first video I uploaded yesterday was 19 MB big (despite being only 2 mins long), but it took just a couple of minutes to upload.

I think, Michele, at least when I read what the experts wrote in the other forum. Hansi mentioned sizes in the KB range.
I'll wait until Karlsruhe and let Hansi or G how to convert and compress them.

compression is a good thing ;)

How can video files be compressed?