| Author | Message | ||
     Jaimec |
Need some help. Bought this cool little, all solid state Samsung Camcorder awhile back. I took some videos of a friend competing in a SuperMoto event in Englishtown last month, but because I didn't change the default resolution the videos are ENORMOUS... for display on a 1080i HD TV! Does anyone know of any free (or inexpensive) tools that can resize MP4 video on Windows? Please let me know? As it is, I can't do anything with these videos but play them back on my television or on my laptop. Too damned big to burn to CD or even DVD. I have "Super" but these videos seem to exceed that utility's capabilities (and that's worked with every other video I've ever thrown at it too). | ||
| Reepicheep |
Windows movie maker will probably do it, and you can then burn the result to a movie format DVD for playing back in any DVD player. It should already be on your computer, or is free from the microsoft download site. | ||
| Greg_e |
Avidemux (free) does a very good job of resizing and recompressing for youtube. If you want to edit it and do other stuff then buy VideoPad (fairly cheap) or Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum (must be platinum to work with your files). | ||
| Jaimec |
Greg, documentation for Avidemux is very slim... I couldn't figure out how to do a damned thing with it and it doesn't have any form of online help. It WAS able to load the file, but other than doing that and playing it I couldn't figure out how to do anything else. It's not like it had a button clearly labeled: "RESIZE." | ||
| Greg_e |
No it does not. You have to go and change the video setting from "copy" to the codec you want to use, then click the filters button. For most things I've been using the mpeg4 x.264 codec, then I will set the resize to 50% on each side. Leave the audio alone with "copy" and I normally set the format setting to MP4 (PSP). You can fiddle with the video "configuration" if you kind of know what you want, or just leave it at default and let it rip. File --> Save Video tells it to start. | ||
| Jaimec |
Thanks, I'll give that a try. | ||
| Jaimec |
I give up. I have Avidemux 2.5. I don't see "mpeg4x2.64" as a codec choice, and no matter which codec I choose, pushing the "Filter" button gets no reaction whatsoever. It doesn't do a damned thing but go in when I press the mouse button, and pop back when I release the mouse button. No menu, no error message, nothing. Not sure which version you have but this is a POS. Thanks anyway. Guess I'll keep looking. | ||
| Greg_e |
Works great for thousands of us on pretty much everyone one of the past three versions that I've used. | ||
| B00stzx3 |
go over to www.videohelp.com If there are any free or good tools, they'll be there. Its the badweb of video stuff!! Try http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HDConvertToX Converts MP4 to whatever, its freeware as well. I'd recommend converting to Xvid format to make it smaller file and still good quality. (Message edited by b00stzx3 on October 04, 2010) | ||
| Biffdotorg |
I posted this on Totally Yamaha when someone asked about how I edit video and specifically how to post it to YouTube easily. Best thing I have found out there that is free and idiot proof has been Microsoft Movie Maker. It's free with Windows. The latest version of it is Microsoft Windows Live Movie Maker. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx ?displaylang=en&FamilyID=741ce3ed-baa2-4610-9f7d-4 2ab694e2b15 This is assuming you are using a windows computer too! Apple has all sorts of great tools that you can use if you are on that side of the fence. In movie maker, you just click Auto Movie. Dump in your video files, add a clip of music, let it adjust to length of music and maybe add some captions or title screens. You can dump it to CD or DVD and adjust the resolution for whatever playback device you want to use, or size of output file. The easiest is to dump it to YouTube. Then just click the YouTube button! It will ask you your YouTube login info and anything about resolutions you want. It will downconvert and upload it to YouTube automatically! There is some processing time on YouTube's part once it is up there. Give it a half hour or so before posting the link here for best resolution. It gets better the more it is processed online. It's so brainless I hate to admit I do all my videos there. Once I do,I many times dump my raw footage as the files are huge and I would rather free up the disk space. I pull up youtube when I want to show them off anyway. (even though the raw footage looks much better) I wish I could just show off the raw footage, but I am not going to keep Terabytes of footage on hand for that. That and the fact that our BluRay player logs into YouTube so easily for pulling up the files in our archive. Good luck! | ||
| Jaimec |
I don't know... can MovieMaker read MP4? These files are HUGE. I'll give it a try, but I'm not hopeful. Greg_e: I guess I just can't get used to the interface. I'm looking for something simple, like input file format, output file format and options, and "Go" or "Convert" or SOMETHING. I can't find any button or switch that says "Go ahead and do the convert!" It reminds me of early Linux... written by geeks FOR geeks and tough cookies to anyone else. Say what you want about Microsoft or Apple, but they knew how to design an interface that most people could easily figure out. | ||
| B00stzx3 |
Try this bro http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HDConvertToX | ||
| Jaimec |
I'll give that a shot. Now I need to find an unRAR utility. Geez, this is turning into a major exercise in Murphy's first law: "Nothing is as easy as it looks." | ||
| Froggy |
Jamie, use WinRAR Also, try Handbrake for the video stuff, I am not sure if it will do what you are intending but it is good for converting videos. | ||
| Greg_e |
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/295782-How-to-g et-started-with-avidemux-edit-and-convert-any-vide o-format Never noticed the Auto button. | ||
| Jaimec |
Greg, THAT'S what I was looking for. Thanks! I'll give it another go after dinner. I also found the settings on the camera to reduce the video size so I don't have to jump through these hoops any more. | ||
| Jaimec |
Greg, It's not the easiest or the most intuitive piece of software I've ever used... but thanks to that page you sent it worked! I've been able to reduce those monstrous video files down to something manageable now. Thanks! | ||
| Greg_e |
Once you start getting used to it, you'll like the simplicity and the ability to do all that stuff on really underpowered computers. Just wish it worked with Quicktime based codecs so I could use it with the files from the cameras at work. Doing this sort of conversion from our Avid editors is painful at best, and so stupidly slow I can't figure out what is going wrong. If you want a simple real editor download the demo of VideoPad and give it a try, it also works on really underpowered computers and is simple to use. While in demo mode it will encode to real h.264, but you need to license certain codecs so eventually you need to pay for it. | ||
| Jaimec |
Greg, there is a freebie MOVtoAVI converter out there. I've had that same issue myself in the past. One of my digital cameras only takes video in MOV format. | ||
| B00stzx3 |
Glad to see its all working. If you ever want easiest way to create working DVDs from your movie files I can't recommend anything better than ConvertXToDVD. Add movie files, change menus/templates, one button convert+burn. Love it. Not video related, but photo related... BatchPhoto automates resizing photos down to web/picasa/facebook friendly sizes. All my photos come out at 1mb+ each, convert em down to 100kb all at once with BatchPhoto. Neither are free, but WELL worth the money I paid for them. |
