Compressing 2 hours to 8 minutes- help!

1. Yourbuddy
   Member

   
   I have a wmv and an avi of 2 hours of screencaptures.. I want to compress it to 8 minutes but it takes hours to render in Premiere and Sorenson Squeeze.
   Does anyone know what I can use to compress it faster and still have crisp video ? :-? :(

   Posted 5 years ago #

2. Video-maniac
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   8-O WOW!
   
   If I'm understanding you correctly, I'm afraid that what you're trying to do is kind of impossible. Sure you might be able to do it at a real small resolution but you made the comment about crisp video.
   
   If this could be done, at 128:8 (min) we would have never needed DVD's because you could have loaded 20+ hours of uncompressed video on one CD.
   
   RAM

   Posted 5 years ago #

3. Southcross
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   ehh... sounds kind of like your trying to convert 120 mins @ 30fps (216000 frames total) to 8mins @ 450fps? That kind of "sharp" frames per second isn't going to happen, nothing "normal" I know of will play at that speed. The best you could possibly do is interlace the 216,000 frames at a rate of 15:1, basically dropping 14 out of 15 frames... its not likely going to look sharp at all

   Posted 5 years ago #

4. compusolver
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   I'm only working on my first pot of coffee, so cut me some slack if I'm missing something but -
   
   "screen captures"? You mean still images off of a computer screen? Or maybe capturing video off of a TV or something? (What exactly do you mean by "screen captures"?)
   
   You don't actually "compress two hours of video to eight minutes". You compress files sizes or reduce bandwidth, but that doesn't shorten viewing time. Oh, I guess you could use the term 'compress', as in "time-compression", but it's not technically correct, computer-term-wise, at least not in my experience.
   
   Whatever. At any rate, your wmv is definitely compressed already and can't be re-edited and re-rendered without losing significant quality. Your avi is most likely uncompressed or at least not using "lossy" compression and is the file you should work with. I'd have to have a better understanding of what's going on to offer any advice though (and maybe another cup of coffee).

   Posted 5 years ago #

5. Southcross
   Member

   

   compusolver Wrote:

   Oh, I guess you could use the term 'compress', as in "time-compression"...

   
   that was my interpretation... Time compressing that much video down to 8mins would be ludicrous, IMHO, unless you do it as a "time lapse" video

   Posted 5 years ago #

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