Compress a video file to 10 Mo Maximum

Out of curiosity, I compressed a MOV to 320X180, a frame rate of 15, using the the x264 encoder. The video bit rate was limited to 55 Kb and the audio to 32 Kb. It wasn't cinema, but it was watchable. Here are the specs (from an older version of Compressor). The file size for a 16 minute movie would be 12 MB. So you would need go a little lower yet…which I think is doable.

A similar compression using H,264 was unwatchable. The x.264 is just more efficient at such aggressive compressions.

Russ

sixteen minutes down to 10MB??

That doesn't leave much to see, I'm afraid.. 😉

Create a Compressor setting, reducing resolution (360x240). reduce framerate (15fps), reduce audio to mono/22kHz, and you need a bitrate below 600kbps ... this will resiult in a file of 100MB ... and close to 'ugly'.. but 10MB? .. no chance!

Pianissimo11 wrote:

... if there was maybe a little software who compresses better than the "zip" solution ?

'zipping' video makes mostly no sense - 'cause video IS already highly compressed.

I would check their specs again.. 10MB for audio-only? Even that is for 16min challanging...

or, did they mean 10mbps, the bitrate not the 'size'...

btw: any reason, why you prefer to write 'Mo' in your posts, not 'MB'?

innocentius wrote:

... . Another good start of the day for me Karsten 😁😁😁

"I love the smell of compression in the morning... Smells like trouble"... or so...😝

glad, you found your way into the new realms of ASC, Mr. Ice ....

Is there a possibility that they only want videos a minute or so long?

It would be interesting to see the website and the video you wish to upload.

Another thought . . . you could always upload your video to YouTube and they could put a link to it on their website . . . just as easy and with no space trouble to them.

I'm not sure that you understood what I meant?

The link I am referring to is the URL of your video on YouTube, like this one . . . or just like the link you gave to the website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7usc2lqkE

That link could be posted on the music website and people would simply have to click the link to view it.

Pianissimo11 wrote:

...… Here is the link if you're interested in : http://www.sacd.fr/Proteger-une-oeuvre...

ahhh - I see: that service, e-dpo.com in your link is meant to create a sort of ©opyright! ... by documenting you did deposit your work to a specific time/date... they offer 'snail-mail' to send in usb-sticks and other media; the online service is limited to 10MB, indeed - meant for example to upload scripts, docs, photos, not complete movies... 😉

In Europe, there's very little need for such a service, due to the 'Urheberrecht' = sorry for using the German term, but 'copyright' is something (completely…) different - there's no copyright in Europe, just Urheber- and Nutzungsrechte (and Aufführungsrechte - a speciality in Germany) ... again, I'm lacking skills to speak lawyer-lingo in a foreign language. This is 'permitted' automatically to the author ... euro-continental law differs dramatically from US-law (here: the artist is protected, there: publisher is protected, art vs. business - diff. history results this)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_d%27auteur

Any lawyer can 'proof' the timestamp of your work ... no need to use such a ... service. Or any 'official' person, a major, a priest ... (!!)

In theory, any publication proofs it ... unfortunately, when you use services as youtube/vimeo/et al you usually give away copyrights, not Urheberrecht, which can not transferred/sold ...

complex issue ... 😉

hard to explain in my native tongue, close to impossible in English, nor French (by google translator) .... 😁😝😎

Karsten Schlüter wrote:

sixteen minutes down to 10MB??

That doesn't leave much to see, I'm afraid.. 😉

Sorry off topic. Another good start of the day for me Karsten 😁😁😁

Pianissimo11 wrote:

They really meant the size of it.

.. maybe, they can demo an example..?... would be interesting, what codecs + settings they use..