Basic Editing/Converting Software

Panda

I've made a couple of timelapse clips since i've posted last,
but the file sizes are huge. i made one AVI clip, about 40seconds long, 320 * 240 @ 14fps and its about 130Mb in size.

Compared to one i downloaded, which was only 1.4mb this is a bit ridiculous.
what software could be used to trim the clip and should it be converted to an mpg?

adnans

download a codec pack like nemo or k-lite codec pack first. then download Virtual Dub and compress the 130mb avi to floppy size.

adnans

Panda

thanks, much appreciated.
If i upload any of them onto my site you've got first dibs.

If you're bothered.

Dustaz

Please do upload. Im interested to see how the timelapse worked out.

Panda

they've been cropped and resampled, a bit of loss of quality but its ok.

Could you point me in the direction of any free web hosting that allows the uploading of avi's? or mpgs?

DRakE

boards hosting might...

Panda

Finally got around to it,
the nice people at boards do indeed allow avi's.

I brought the d/l size down to 1.45mb, so its not too bad.
there is a loss of quality, but it still looks cool. in my opinion neway.

its on my site now.
click the link in my sig and then time lapse photography if you want to see it.

daire

Hey panda that's really deadly. So that's 560 photos over how many hours? How did you set that up? is there a program that grabs a still from the camera every so many minutes? i'm sure premiere does it... welldone anyway (could have done without that crow flciking into it tho.)

adnans

here's my attempt

http://www.yorema.com/~adnans/sky.avi

(divx + mp3 compression)

adnans

Panda

Not sure how u reached that conclusion daire, it was more like 1000 pics, over a period of around 6 hours. I think i had the program take one every 10 seconds.
and short of running around the garden and shouting all day you cant really control where the crows fly. :ninja:

Click here to get the program to make the clips, works with any digital camera(i think).

Panda

Something wrong with that adnans.

It brings up wm player and just keeps trying to connect, no clip.....

adnans

right click on the link and go Save Target As... save it somewhere like your desktop and play it once its downloaded.

adnans

Panda

ahh, thats pretty damn nice,
theres a good bit of quality loss tho in the whitest of the clouds tho, pity.

still tho, its better than my one :mad:

:rolleyes: