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Question

Trying to compress video for emailing

May 10, 2011 8:53AM PDT

I have a computer with XP and I have a yahoo mail account. I took a short video with a Kodak Zi8 pocket video camera and the size of the video is 45mb. It is too large to email. How do I compress the video so that it is able to be attached to email? I have never done this before, so I am going to need step by step directions. Can anyone help me?

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Answer
The good and bad news is.
May 10, 2011 9:03AM PDT

The good news is this has been discussed before. The bad news is that most emails limit you to 1 or 2 MB attachments so email is not possible.

Most video is already compressed so your choices are to send it with some service like usendit or similar.
Bob

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Solution
May 10, 2011 10:44AM PDT

After reading the 'good and bad news is" response, I came up with another solution. I used Dropbox to store the video file in the "Public" folder and then created a link that was sent via email to the person I was trying to send the video to. They simply clicked on the link and VOILA....it was there! Dropbox rocks!!

Thanks for your input.

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Yes. That's one of the solutions.
May 11, 2011 6:29AM PDT

It's a nice upgrade from usendit and other solutions of the day.
Bob