Making clips for website.

Hello Everyone,

I am having a website made with videoclips in it which are samples of my work. The webdesigner told me to make quicktimes less than 4mb big. How can I make a quicktime so small? (My clips are between 1-5 min.)

Thanks in advance to anyone with advice!
Kind regards,
Robert



robert
robertohp2001@yahoo.com

If you are using Quicktime 7 or greater, you might try utilizing MPEG-2. part 10, better known as H.264 output. SorensenSqueeze is the reigning king of web output compressors but H.264 is very good at getting a fairly large clip down to a usable size.

My 2¢:

Though the H.264 codec does produce a nice image, I would stick with Sorensons for a while. Not everyone has the H.264 codec and those folks will encounter errors when trying to play your movies (nobody ever told me they couldn't open my web movies - either on PC or Mac - in 10 years). I make 30 second sorensons around 4 megs - and they are very clean. You will have to play with the settings to get your 1 to 5 minute clips in that neighborhood (lower Data Rate, lower FPS, smaller clip size, cropping, lower audio sample rate, etc.).

...and IMHO, Cleaner 6.5 is the "King of Web Compressors" (have been using it for years).

...but that's just me

- Joey



When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Joey's right.
.mov's with Sorenson 3 Pro provides a movie that can be seen cross platform every time.

As much as I wanna use h.264...:-(



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which sorenson models can do this? do the old ones do it too?

You can use cleaner or squeeze if you want 2 pass VBR.



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