When it's done and all this is gone; just find the feeling, pass it on

[lizblackdog]

...how the hell do you make 20 minutes of video take up 4GB? The wedding's on TWO DVDs and my media player wouldn't even play it till I'd copied the first half to my hard drive. And I can't copy the second half till I've made some space.

There were people I wanted to show this to. Some of you were there. The only way I can see it being possible is to mail you copies, though.

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[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

That's... um. Well, I was going to say that uncompressed DVD files are much bigger than AVI files, but still. 20 mins should never be 4GB. 1GB, maybe. Are they .vob files or .avi? You can probably compress them using something like VirtualDub.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

They're .avi files. I have NO IDEA how they managed to make them that fucking huge. Possibly they had to be as uncompressed as possible because it was converted from a seventeen-year-old VHS tape and the picture quality wasn't that great to start with, I don't know.

I am very, very clueless when it comes to mucking about with video. But if VirtualDub is free and easy for a complete idiot to use I'll give it a shot. At least I have it safe now, even if it has to stay huge.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Virtual dub is free and relatively easy to use. Sometimes it puts the audio out of sync, which drives me batty, but usually it works pretty well. Worth a try, at least?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I shall do that - thank you!

[gimpytimby.livejournal.com]

Uncompressed digital video is 13.8 GB / hour, so 4GB for 20 minutes is about the proper ratio.

Ah, you women and size.......

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[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I was hoping I'd hear from you :D