compressing a file
 

well i just finished rendering my pvp vid.. and its 3gb o.o
i need a way to compress it since the quality is already great but the file is just huge :/.

What are you using and how many Mbps are you rendering it at?

There's a stickied encoding guide that you might wanna look up otherwise ^^

This might help if your doing it with XviD or WMV http://www.warcraftmovies.com/articleview.php?id=21

You should have a video editting program look up the guide on site and follow the directions :P

This is probably a bit off topic, but are there any programs that compile to .mp4 based video? I ask because I watched a 430mb .mp4, which is just over a 2hour movie, and the quality is quite good for the file size and length of it.

H264 based encoding maybe out of the question since it's fairly recent, but I don't see why .mp4 wouldn't be bad. The only issue would be the right codecs/player(if you got VLC, shouldn't even be a problem to view a .mp4).

mp4 is just a container, its really no different than avi

the codec that was used is key, its probably h.264 or sorenson 3
thats just a guess based on the container


there are a lot of good h.264 variants out there, and are a great alternative to the dastardly xvid and divx codecs
x264 is a great open source variant that should work with just about any editor
and if you just export your video to an uncompressed codec like huffy you can then use quicktime to encode your video in apple's h.264

From experience I'd say go with a DivX encoder. I've taken 800mb movies and knocked them down to 75mb before. As long as you get the DivX codec you should be able to encode this format.