Question:
How can I shrink a windows movie maker file (wmv) from 133GB to 2GB?
Emily
2010-02-01 12:51:37 UTC
So I want t upload a video to youtube that I made,
but it says that file is 133GB
and it needs to be 2GB to go on youtube.

Is there any way possible to do this?
This is really frustrating me because I spent a while working on it,
please help?
Four answers:
The Teller
2010-02-01 12:57:05 UTC
Other than magic...

You can compress it so much that it comes out as one pixel with 1-bit sound. Unless you used some incredibly fat video format, I don't think any one file will go to 133 GB...that's like 10 blu-ray movies. There's not way to go about this well, especially because it will take days of compressing to get a result.
2010-02-01 22:24:43 UTC
Not even magic. Maybe a major miracle?



There are only two ways to shrink a movie - make it shorter (throw out scenes) or lower the quality.



If you throw away enough quality to do that, you'll have a blob or two as the final picture. You're throwing out 131 out of every 133 pixels.



If you shorten the movie, you're throwing out 131 minutes out of every 133 minutes. You won't even have a trailer.



If you convert the wmv to avi format, you may come in at 50GB or more.



But a 98% reduction in size? Only if you're shrinking a database that's preallocated but empty. Shrinking a movie that much would render it useless.
2010-02-01 20:54:41 UTC
LOL. You need a magician for that
Steve
2010-02-01 20:56:47 UTC
thats not possible


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