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[[RWP]DJM]

It's about 95 meg, so the upload is taking a few minutes. (The avi was 2Gb!).

I usually export to MPEG 2 for storing them on my PC (untl I back them up on DVD), but I use MPEG 1 for uploading

I am gonna play around with some settings on my next movie though, because I want better quality for my uploads

Carl.

[TerryRussell]

I've stored in mine in DV format, which takes a bit of space, but hard disks are cheap these days, so not worried on that score.

I converted to mpeg2 for the upload. That gave a good size image and I could set the quality level as I wished. I went for a good level of quality balanced by a reasonable level of compression. So 2Gb went down to 95Meg.

[[RWP]DJM]

DV is great quality, and like you, I also have enough space on my HDD's

95meg for MPEG 2 is pretty good going.  I assume that you altered the bitrate manually for the export then?

Carl.

[TerryRussell]

Sort of. I have a program I created myself. It has a slider which allows me to balance between no compression (i.e. top-notch quality) and maximum compression (i.e. pretty grotty quality). I went about halfway between the two and was pleased with the result. It takes a while to do the conversion (about as long as the video lasts), but it works well.

[[RWP]DJM]

Real-Time conversion isn't too bad though.  When I first started in 2003, it used to take 3 times longer than that

I played around with bitrates a lot in my early days, but I rarely bother now, unless I'm after something specific from the movie.  The standard plugins seem to work ok most of the time though

Carl.

[TerryRussell]

Finally, I got it uploaded:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1bkxhwPhzQ

[[RWP]DJM]

Made a comment on your separate 'Media Board' topic

I rarely use proper video footage of my own now.  I did film my Sister's wedding in 1999, and created 2 different edited versions for her.  I didn't have a PC at the time, so it took much longer than it would now, especially with the music video version I did.................cables everywhere

I do use other peoples video footage of course (that they've filmed), and still do some movies for family and friends, including parody movies.....they always get a laugh

Carl.

[trains]

Hiya guys

Excuse me for interrupting SA

trains, that's what you call video overlay (using more than one piece of video 'overlayed' on top of others).  You would need 5 pieces of video to achieve what you are talking about, and then arranging them to your liking.  You can see a 4-video overlay in my Ship Simulator 2006 movie, when the helms of each vessel are shown, and you can see 2-video overlays on some of my other movies too

Each piece of video is usually inserted onto a separate track, and then moved around etc. (like SA mentioned ).

Hope this helps

Carl.

can you mak a video tutorial for that?

[[RWP]DJM]

I could do that, but I've always found that if you lead someone by the hand, how will they ever learn to walk by themselves

That's the ex-teacher coming out there

Carl.

P.S.  I could only do a tutorial with the packages I use, and not everyone uses the same packages.  That's one of the reasons that I did a standard guide, not a full rundown

Edit:  There are some tutorials for MoviePlus 5, available here:  http://www.serif.com/community/tutorials/index.asp

Scroll down a little to find them

[llamalord]

Thanks DJM you're doing alot of people alot of good here.

[[RWP]DJM]

Well, I don't know about that, but it is a pleasure for me to help if I can

[Capt. Le Velle]

are there any free movie making software