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Email photo booth video, how to make attachment smaller?

Usually when you attach a photo to an email in Mail program, in the bottom right of the email window, you can choose, actual size, small, medium, large. I am looking for that feature for a video. I recorded a 1'26" video in photo booth, clicked on the email icon and the video opens in a new mail message to send attached to that email. There seems to be no option for changing the size of the video attachment, but there must be some easy way to do this. Can anyone let me know, please? Currently the file is 4.2MB and I would like it to be no more than 2MB. Thanks!

MacBook Pro 15, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iPod Touch 2nd gen. 64GB (late 2009)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 6:00 AM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 7:40 AM

That function only works with and applies to photo files -- not video, PDF, Word Doc, etc.


Some versions of QuickTime may be able to alter the size. Also iMovies may be able to.


Ernie

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Jul 20, 2011 9:13 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

Thank you for the info that the function in Mail to change size of photos does not apply to movies - too bad. I tried importing the file to iMovie, then exported the file (Share menu) to iTunes as 'medium' size and as 'mobile' size. When you get to the newly made file in iTunes, the 'medium' file is 16MB and the mobile size is 10.4MB. The original file size was 4.2! I suppose the original file - .mov - is somehow made larger when it changes to a .m4v file, which is what it is in iTunes. So, unfortunately, I have not found a good way. I don't have a pro version of QuickTime, so I'm not certain whether the free QuickTime with OS X has options for changing file size. Tara

Jul 20, 2011 9:24 AM in response to Tara Hollander

Try using Quick Player (not QT 7 which has Pro Key), and Save As iPhone (cellular). I just tested and found it reduced a 1.57 GB .mov to .3GPP movie of only 4.8 MB. Not sure of the universal compatibility of this format. There is also another iPhone format that you could try, which I did not test.


I don't this requires a Pro Key, but I have all sorts of pro video apps which might do an upgrade I didn't think about.


Ernie

Jul 20, 2011 10:50 AM in response to Ernie Stamper

I tried that suggestion as well, thank you. The iPhone cellular file was too degraded video quality to be worth it. By the way, is that file extension compatible for an Android, or watching on any computer?


In today's day and age, 4.2MB isn't so big, so I'm sending the original file created in photo booth, but it seems I won't use this movie recording feature, as I potentially thought I would/could. Thanks for the ideas and suggestions, I'm very grateful.

Email photo booth video, how to make attachment smaller?

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