video capture to use and distribute on the internet

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someblokecalleddave

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video capture to use and distribute on the internet

I'm looking for the cheapest and most easiest way of capturing video footage which can then be converted for uploading to the internet. I've found a little digital video camera that captures AVI files - are these any good - can they be uploaded easily to places like youtube? Are they also playable using windows media player or realplayer?

Anyone know these answers?

PS don't go down the "suggesting I use a phone" route.
 
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I've now got a much better camera - Canon G9 which is a compact digital camera that has a video function. The video function comes in three quality modes. Crap, good and exceptional. I'm generally shooting my video clips and uploading them to youtube once they've been edited.... YouTube - The Wrong Un Wrist Spin Bowling Wrong Un

The thing is even in 'Good' mode the size of the files is enormous. In order to make the whole process more manageable I tend to record the clips in short lumps, so for instance in the nets I may shoot 4 or 5 blokes bowling - turn it off and start again so that the video clips are a few minutes long. These clips straight off the camera are 200MB + in size and obviously include the crap action as well as the stuff I'm looking for.

So I then edit the files using Welcome to virtualdub.org! - virtualdub.org an on-line free editing tool and this enables me to create the specific short clips that I upload. But the clips that are edited are 5 seconds long and therefore only a fraction of the original file that was 200mb and 2 or 3 minutes long. But despite the fact that these clips are so short timewise they're massive as flies. Just the clip I've linked to here on it's own is 104MB.

What's that all about?
 
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Videos are looking good - great quality.

Can't really help with regards to the files sizes but it sounds like it's one of those little mysteries that you get with video/graphic files. I know that I get the odd psd or CAD file that will refuse to shrink in size regardless of what you do to it.

It may that you'll have to find another editing suite. What format do you end up with?
 
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I've just looked at some Original Files that have not been edited and they're different. As I said before editing they're a lot smaller. If I got into the properties the main thing that strikes me is that there's nothing to say that the file is or isn't compressed or uncompressed. Whereas the edited files have the info below and it clearly states that it's uncompressed. I've noted that there's a tick box option to compress it, so I'll try that I reckon.

The file are windows movie files.

The edited files are 640 x 480
750KBPS
Audio Sample Size is 16bit
Audio format is PCI
Data Rate is 216738 kbps
Video sample size is 24bit
Video compression is - Uncompressed.
 
Re: video capture to use and distribute on the internet

No it didn't it went form 142Mb to 139mb in the properties data thing, but if you click on the file it still says that it's 142MB?
 
Re: video capture to use and distribute on the internet

Search me then, as I said, it sounds like a similar thing that happens in photoshop or cad.

Compress the file and it increases in size etc.
 
The file bitrate is too high if you ask me, needless for youtube as YT would compress it anyways.

Do you by any chance have an nVidia graphics card? If yes you could use Badaboom for quick conversion to youtube levels.

Or if not, try eRightSoft and get SUPER from there. Its free. Download that and convert all these videos to AVI files. I think youtube has videos at 320x240, so convert your files around that size, keep the bitrate to something like 940kbps, audio rate to around 128Kbps, and then see the results of the video. Should be way more shorter in size. Play with the quality settings till you get your desired quality / size ratio. Then remember the settings and use the same ones everytime. :)

mas cambios;322790 said:
Search me then, as I said, it sounds like a similar thing that happens in photoshop or cad.

Compress the file and it increases in size etc.
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If you try to compress video files / PSD's / CAD files through 7zip / WinRAR etc., its no use because those files are already encoded and can't be compressed anymore. This compression is called lossless compression and it doesn't work on videos or things like PSD's.

How JPEG's come out to be so small is the lossless compression, where most of the unneeded quality is thrown away.
 
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