Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-26 Thread Michael Lewis
Paula Minor sez: Michael, I used iMovie and imported my mpg movie into it with no problem and it plays but the sound is missing. For anyone watching this thread, I'd just like to pass on that we fixed Paula's sound issue. Both she and I located a free application called MPEG StreamClip.

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-26 Thread Paula Minor
Michael Lewis said I'll let Paula tell more about the process as well as provide the link to the movie she worked on. :) Thanks to Michael and Apples discussion groups, I was able to find the problem with the sound on my video file. My camera is not a real digital video camerait

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-25 Thread Paula Minor
Paula -- I think Handbrake is mainly a program for work with DVDs. I admit I haven't looked at it very closely, so my initial look could be fooling me. However, you should have everything you need on your Mac if you have iMovie or have purchased Quicktime Pro. Try what I've created at the

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-24 Thread Mason Miller
Paula, Michael is right. I use it for compressing DVD's, and it has great compression algorithms, but it needs to start from a DVD source. OSrry for the bum tip. Mason Michael Lewis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-24 Thread Paula Minor
Michael, thank you. I had to look to see if I had iMovie since I'd removed it from the dock, figuring I'd never use it. Ha. I'll give it a try. And if any of you like old fashioned RR..shades of Buddy Holly! look for the Cadillac Angels because they put on a fantastic show and music

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Lewis
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[CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-22 Thread Paula Minor
While in Jerome,AZ I took some video of a band that I want to upload to YouTube. My MPG file is 500mb but Youtube limits you to 100 mb. How do I go about compressing the video so that it's small enough to upload? I'm on either an iMac G5 and I do have GarageBand if that worksor a

Re: [CGUYS] How do I compress MPG files

2007-04-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
First thing to do is to frame the video to the size YouTube wants (320 x 240). If you have not already done this, it will make the file a lot smaller. Software, called a CODEC (COder-DECoder) does the compression. There are many different CODECs with different properties. The two basic types