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How to reduce size of a video
Name: Henryhauw (by henryhauw) Date: September 14, 2006 at 06:30:29 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 2.4 GHz / 512 MB
Comment:
I used my digital camera (Canon A400) to take a video. It's in AVI format and the duration playing the video is 35 seconds. But the file size is very big, 11 MB. How can I reduce the size to, say, not more than 2 MB so that I can attach to an email ?
Name: Kurt S Date: September 14, 2006 at 08:07:58 Pacific
Reply:
You can use the Movie Maker program built into XP. It will give your several options for file size when you re-encode it. Remeber however that the smaller the file size the lower the quality of the video.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bryco Date: September 14, 2006 at 08:49:48 Pacific
Reply:
.wmv (Windows Media Video) will reduce it to about 300 kb and retain pretty good quality.
This can be selected from the same program noted by Kurt S.
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