DVD conversion
by MrGadgetman - 2/27/11 1:42 AM
In Reply to: e-mail DVD VIDEO by bac0926
There are video editing programs that can recode your video from DVD video (MPEG-2@6000b/s, stereo surround, etc) to several other formats including uploadable-specific ones. Now the bad news. To get the video file to shrink anywhere NEAR the size it needs to be to survive an email that video's quality will be adversely effected.
You will have to sacrifice framerate, video size(resloution), and bitrate for video and sound. Say your standard DVD-video is a few minutes long. By the time you shrink it to 320x240, 15fps with a sucky bitrate and mono it still will be a few megabytes. Gmail and Comcast I know will let you get away with 5MB emails. Some other ISPs and email services will not.
My advice? Set your digital video camera to the lowbandwidth email-friendly setting. Most cameras let you change the capture settings. Some brands call their setting VGA/Email others call it SD-LQ (as opposed to HD-UHQ: High Definition Ultra High Quality) Also, set the quality from "Fine" to "Normal".
The goal? The less you have to deviate from the native capture the less quality you have to sacrifice.
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