Guest Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I've made a very short video of an asteroid using MaximDL. It only has 10 frames. The output file is .AVI and is huge. Is there a way of converting this to something more manageable sizewise. At the moment it's about 120Mb. Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbo! Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I would look at pipp and virtualdub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwillett Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 @woodblock How big is huge? (if thats not a rude question). Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 The AVI size is 120Mb. I've managed to convert it to MP4 which is only 1.5 Mb. I wanted to email it to my daughter who is also into astronomy. I've posted the video under observing/planetary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwillett Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 120MB for 10 frames is not unrealistic if each frame is 12MB. Depending on how its stored and AVI is just a file container, it could have no compression or lots of compression. As it's an MS created file format, I'd assume it's not optimised. Since you've converted it to MP4 the problem has gone away. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han59 Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 If you upload it to Youtube it is convertered anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie alert Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 When you save in maxim you can change the output file..not too sure what the video file options are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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