Compressing Videos is like putting it together in one video. (you'll see what I mean)
When you have a RAW video clip of a hacker or such, you have 2 audio streams, 1 FULL QUALITY video clip and It also keeps track of things such as FPS at the time and such. This is why it holds such a lot of memory, once it's compressed it's all in the one place, it doesn't keep track of fps, there is 1 audio stream and 1 cut quality video. If you look at it like this it's easier to understand.
Personally I use Handbrake, it's fast and it works, you can change the memory of the video to a complete HALF of what it has and don't lose a single pixel in quality.
Here's Handbrake, first you drag in the video clip.
- 1. goto The Tick Boxes near the top as color coded here, Tick, Web Optimized. This will crop the last drops of memory.
- 2. Go onto the video tab underneath the tick boxes and Underneath the Quality text change the constant quality to 25, this is the most you can change it by without losing too much quality, but it certainly does take a LOT of memory away.
- 3. Select your destination of folder where the NEW video file will go. Easy as.
- 4. Click Start!
You should find the new video in the folder you defined.
Hope this helped and wasn't too over explanatory but it works for me all the time, I don't have the greatest internet, primarily why i don't bust as many hackers as I should, but this speeds up the process a lot and I hope it works for you too.
Thanks ;)
