How do you compress a home video?

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How do I compress a home video file to fit on a DVD?

I'm using DVD Architect to burn my home digital video onto DVDs, but I'm getting an error message that says there's not enough room on the DVD...Can I compress the file to fit? The footage is only just over an hour.

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Chances are your video is in .AVI or .MOV format. That is raw uncompressed format. Check in the help...

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Splitting, compressing video (.DAT) file

I shot a video in mini DV of 15 minutes duration and got it converted to Video CD format by a third party for a small fee. The resulting file is a DAT file of 150 MB that can be played on Windows Media Player or home Video CD player. (The home video...

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Unfortunately, compressing VCD video will not save you much in overhead relative to your 150mb file...

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Digital camera video compressing for email; help !?

Is there any way to compress a digital home video small enough to send it to someone in an email ? Answer asap please.

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I use studio 9 and after the movie is rendered it will let to save it make either an avi file....very...

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Video compression help?

I have recently imported all of our home video tapes onto the computer using adobe premiere elements. I have put on 6 tapes and they take up over 70GB of our hard drive space!!! How can i compress these videos to make them smaller files please help

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You will have to use a software to compress the file. These softwares will either convert the file to...

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What's the easiest/cheapest way to set up a home surveillance camera that will notify me and stream video for remote viewing/recording if somebody enters my home while I'm gone?

What is the easiest, cheapest, most effective way for me to set up a single motion-triggered surveillance camera at home to verify whether I have a creepy situation going on while I'm gone? If triggered, I want it to alert me remotely, stream video for...

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I found the X10 stuff to be fairly infuriating to use, but perhaps I'm just an idiot (it didn't help...

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How do I compress an 11 GB video file to a 3 GB video file ? I want to make a DVD?

I just extracted a video from my video camera and it was about 55 mins long and its in AVI format what i dont get is how come it came out so big? the video file is so huge ! i cant put it on a 4.7 GB blank DVD does anyone know how to compress or make...

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hmmm. that is about right. Standard definition video uses about 14 gig for 60 minutes... Anyway, I would...

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How do I compress the video taken from my MiniDV camera?

I have a Sony DCR-HC20E and I am now taking the video from it via FireWire cable and using Windows Live Movie Maker, but the whole tape would take 12GB of my HDD. I want to compress the video so I can burn it on a DVD, but still keep good video quality...

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The easy answer is to use MovieMaker and DVD Maker. With the video project open, under File, select...

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Help me edit a specific sound out of a home video (DV-AVI)

Is there free video editing software that can edit audio as well? If so, how do I remove a specific sound from my video? I was planning on asking for suggestions on video editing software, but I realized that's been covered and it's not really specific...

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What OS are you using? On Linux, Kino and Cinelerra are both nice apps (the former is friendlier than...

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How can i play IPOD VIDEO using ONKYO DSA1 DOCK AND ONKYO HT-SP908 7.1 HOME THEATER?

I HAVE BOUGHT "Onkyo HT-SP908 7.1 Channels Home Theater Sound System " wich includes " DSA1 Dock for iPod ". I HAVE 60GB VIDEO IPOD. I HAVE CONNECTED IPOD TO HOME THETARE WITH DOCK AND AUDIO VIDEO ANNALOG CABLES. I HAVE SELECTED GAME...

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Based on specs, your HT upconverts all video signals to HDMI. The only thing I can suggest to to check...

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Should I compress my video before Editing it or should I edit my video first then compress it?

I've been doing some Minecraft videos lately and they haven't been coming out very well, mostly they have a lot of wiggly strange lines along the outline of tress etc. maybe it's my texture pack or maybe not. But the point is hat whenever I try to render...

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Edit first always. If you can't tell the difference between 360p and 720p, you probably didn't record...

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