If you send in video from a camera phone to Utterz, you may not run into this problem, but if you are using a hand held camera to record movies in the video mode or even a camcorder, you may sometimes end up with a video file size larger than 40 mb (over the Utterz video file size quota).
This happens to me all the time, but you don’t have to edit the movie away until there is nothing left.
I mentioned this as an aside in the thread that this message is a reply to, but I thought I’d spell it out a bit more clearly for some of the new folks on Utterz or the people new to video.
The general idea is that you can take a video file and convert it into a different video file that does not take up as much file size space.
In the conversion, you can also change the dimensions of the video changing the file size say from 1200 x 900 down to 480 x 360 or something. 480 x 360 is about the largest video Utterz will show at the same resolution anyway.
When you change the dimensions, or change the quality of the video, or change the file type (depending on which you choose), this can significantly decrease your file size.
For example for short basic videos I sometimes use my simple digital camera. Its a Canon Digital Elph and its actually a bit old (3.2 megapixel if you want to date it). I can take about 2 minutes of video with it with a screen with of 680 pixels at 30 frames per second.
It records in a file type of .AVI.
I can then take the resulting file and convert it into .WMV using a converter I picked up originally for my real camcorder
I personally then convert .flv (flash video files) into .avi or .wmv files so that I can edit them and mix them with other projects.
( http://top10tech.com/…ree-trial/ - it comes with a free trial if you want to take it for a spin - screen shot above.)
With that tool I can convert a 30 second movie of 100 megabytes (too big for Utterz) down to about 5 megabytes, which is well under the Utterz 40 megabyte quota.
When I make fancier stuff with Pinnacle studio movie editing software, I tend to create the movies in .MPG at a low quality setting for the internet.
I then take those movies and convert them to .WMV as well and on a good day can shave 1/3 to 2/3’s off the file size of a movie.
That conversion means that I can get a movie into Utterz under the quota which is good.
It also means faster upload times as well, so I’m not getting a drink, watching a little tv, exercising on the elliptical machine and taking a nap while I waiting for the Utterz system to accept the video. I just zap it up there and move on to what ever I’m going to do next.
There are probably dozens or hundreds of other converters out there, and you may have one or two on your computer system already. (I used to use windows moviemaker to do some basic conversion, by burning an old movie into a new movie with a different file format. Its a slower more tedious way of doing things but it can sometimes help.
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