Uploading video clips

[Kevin]

If ya wanna send it via internet cafe its posible.. you would need to send via an ftp program easier would just send the cd's via snail mail.

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[Tiki]

There ya go again with the lingo....I have no idea what an ftp program is. :oops: I hope this isn't make Tiki look dumb week!

OK, snail mail it is and thanks for helping me out like that! :D So I should just save them as AVI-that's what they already are in...hey at least I knew THAT term! (trying to look intelligent)

[Kevin]

well its 5am here and still have a ton of things i wanna finish ie other website stuff nad not enought time in the day....

yea save as avi's

[Tiki]

Hey Kevin! Maybe I'm not so dumb after all! I found a compression program on the net, downloaded it and manged to convert my AVI's into Mpegs. The file sizes are now between 19-28 MB. I MAY have a shot at uploading these from work, I will try tomorrow. I managed to get one clip in (I think) called "Rock A Tiel". However when I clicked on it to check it out, it was choppy and cut off. It is supposed to be 21 seconds and I only got 9 seconds. Can you please have a look and see if it is downloading properly into Windows Media and it isn't cut off? It ended up as 5.09 MB and took me 35 minutes to upload on a dial-up connection.

Hope ya like my first attempt at a music video!

Here is the link:

http://www.flydragonsoft.com/avi-compressor.htm

[Tiki]

OK, here goes! Now at work on lunch hour, trying to upload first mpeg clip of new hatchlings at 19.2 MB. Wish me luck!

The little icon at the RH corner of the screen says Local Area Network speed 100 Mbps-what does that mean?

[kvnband]

that little thing tells you how fast your connection to your office's network is. Usually 10 or 100, depending on the network card in the computer.

[Tiki]

Hey Kevin-I am so PO'd. I tried for 35 minutes to upload one that was 29.2 MB, failed, finally had to shut down as I get in trouble if I am on too long. Very frustrating-I wish it told you how long it takes to upload something. Liek when you download a program it tells you how long it takes. I might have given up like 2 min before it was completed. Will try again tomorrow.

The company has broadband/adsl but many people have access to it so don't know how other people also online affect what I am doing. The main IT dept is in Sydney and I am in Brisbane.

[trope]

Here's how to get your videos uploaded for us to see very simply:

1. It doesn't matter what format your files are in. Download NERO the trial version.

2. Open NERO and choose NEW VIDEO

3. It encodes for you.

4. You choose the file type. I would choose DIVX or AVI

5. Upload to You Tube.

I do it all the time. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending upon how you look at it) you have a DVD recorder it appears, so that is why step 3 is necessary.

Let me know if you are still having problems, I will put together a screencast vid tutorial for you.

Regards,

John T.