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Emailing large iPhone 4S video

  • 30-10-2012 8:34pm
    #1
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I took a video this evening so I can send it to someone who's out of the country. I took it on the 4S in portrait because it suited (I know landscape is preferred but it was a kid chatting).

    iOS 6 wouldnt let me send it because it was a minute long and too big to email so I ran it through handbrake to reduce it but its saving to the desktop in landscape mode.

    Is there any way I can simply reduce the size of the video to less than 25mb so I can send it via mail? Or just rotate the video after I've reduced it with Handbrake?

    Thanks a lot!


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  • #2
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Maybe try signing up for Dropbox, no file size limits, just save to the dropbox folder and give your friend the file URL.


  • #3
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Maybe try signing up for Dropbox, no file size limits, just save to the dropbox folder and give your friend the file URL.

    Ah thanks, I have dropbox but they're gonna be looking at it on their own iPhone in Spain so ideally I'd like to just send them a mail. Its a little halloween message from their granddaughter. Its 165mb and to make it easy to download I need to get it down to less than 25mb.

    I dont understand why it auto rotated it after I converted it. The original is sitting on my mac desktop now in portrait the way I want it, just the 25mb version is beside it in landscape.


  • #4
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I had a the really annoying problem of trying to salvage about 10 minutes of portrait shot iphone footage... NEVER shoot portrait. It's wrong and it's the work of the devil. I used sony vegas to recrop, and it wasn't fun. You can email them the landscape one and they can just turn their phone until it looks right, and if its on the screen they can just turn their head...


  • #5
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    I didnt think it'd be such an ordeal. To reduce the size of a video that looks perfectly fine without rotating shouldnt be this tricky.

    I have the original now on my desktop the way it was taken.. all I really need is to reduce it.. Hmmm..


  • #6
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    upload it to youtube from your phone and it will work, you can make it private and then download it on the computer and it will be the right resolution


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  • #7
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    Trotter wrote: »
    Ah thanks, I have dropbox but they're gonna be looking at it on their own iPhone in Spain

    Why can''t they download from Dropbox on their iPhone ?


  • #8
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Piliger wrote: »
    Why can''t they download from Dropbox on their iPhone ?

    They're roaming in Spain.. I don't want to cost them a fortune.


  • #9
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    Trotter wrote: »

    They're roaming in Spain.. I don't want to cost them a fortune.
    I'm afraid that's going to happen anyway if you're emailing them 25MB to receive while they're roaming...


  • #10
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Can you upload video to a shared photo stream?


  • #11
    shanec1928
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,162 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    if ye both have iphones iMessage the video....


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  • #12
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    In the end I just sent the sideways version and told her to put portrait lock on.


  • #13
    Piliger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭Piliger


    Trotter wrote: »
    They're roaming in Spain.. I don't want to cost them a fortune.

    Same cost. A visit to any reputable hotel foyer or other free local wifi location would fix that.


  • #14
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Just wary of the cost. I'm on Vodafone passport and I got a bill for €45 one day on a trip to London. They wouldnt/couldnt tell me what I'd used the data for and I couldnt figure it out either. Still ended up having to pay the bill.


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