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Video Uploading

by johnnalee Feb 22, 2009 10:27PM PST

I just purchased a Canon FS100 video camera and want to upload a video to my webpage. The camera uses a SDHD memory card, and I am using Windows XP Media Edition. Using the Canon software that came with the camera, I had no trouble running the video on my PC and saving the file. The video is only 1 1/2 minutes, but is 155MB MPEG file. As I am not able to upload, I think that file is probably too big. I tried to pull it into Windows Movie Maker, as I see there is a function to upload to the web, and figured it might reduce the size, but it won't recognize the MPEG file. I saw on CNet that it has to be changed to another file extension, but I don't know how to do that. Can someone please explain how I do that, or is there an easier way to get this video small enough to upload. I recorded the video in XP for a better quality, and guess I shouldn't do that if I want to upload to the web. Thank you so much if anyone out there can help me.

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converting mpeg files
by Papa Echo Feb 23, 2009 7:15AM PST

Windows Movie Maker supports, among others, mpeg, mpeg1, but not mpeg2....You can convert your file to avi: Googled Results, then open in WMM ....

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www.SeeToo.com - Great new way to share BIG videos!
by alexh1820 Feb 23, 2009 3:27PM PST

Hi,
There is a great new way to
share your videos without uploading them - http://www.SeeToo.com !
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http://www.SeeToo.com

To reduce your videos you have to transcode it to another format/quality level. Following utility does it very well
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Thanks for the Reply
by johnnalee Feb 23, 2009 10:49PM PST

Thank you so much for the reply. I will check them both out.

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Thanks for the Reply
by johnnalee Feb 23, 2009 10:51PM PST

Thank you so much, I will definitely check it out.

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