Compressing videos

[linz8200ga]

Hello again!

I am trying to send a HD video to someone that has Premiere 10. The original size of the video is 495,000 KB. This file is WAY too large to email. Is there a way to upload the video into my Premiere and then compress the size to make it easy to email???

I want to keep it in HD format. I tried to 'share' it using computer Share, MPEG using the 1440x1080i preset and it didnt make it that much smaller. It went from to 495,000KB to 319,000KB. That still isnt small enough to email.

Any suggestions? I dont want to lose any of the quality.

Thanks in advance...this board is wonderful!

[Dave McElderry]

I'd suggest snail mail. A couple of options - create a Blu-Ray disc, or burn the file to a data CD and mail it to them.

[Steve Grisetti]

Exactly what I would suggest, Dave.

Although if you own web space some place, you can upload it to your account and he can download it from there. Depending on his internet speed, a 495 meg download could take fifteen minutes to half an hour.

And make sure what you upload to this site is the original raw video from the camcorder! Don't try to compress it or convert it to a smaller file. You'll just make the file harder for your friend to work with later.

[Chuck Engels]

I agree with the others, if you are going to be doing this a lot you can invest $10 in a 1GB flash drive to mail back and forth

[Chris B]

Time to buy some pigeons!

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