[X4U] Video size

[Paul Moortgat]

I could reduce the size in half by making it a WMV file and then a Mov file again.

Paul Moortgat

On 28 Feb 2014, at 11:22, Conlon Brett wrote:

I'm a little rusty but it comes down to the compression used & bitrate (how much information is used to represent each frame). Similar with say a TIFF vs JPEG image. They might be same number of pixels wide by deep but the jpg will be much smaller & probably poorer quality.

Cojcolds

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> On 28 Feb 2014, at 21:01, Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> I made (with my camera) a HD1080 movie of 11 minutes which was 1.5 GB large.
> I downloaded a HD1080 movie of 45 minutes from Youtube which was around 750 MB large.
> They both are in 1080.  Why is there such a difference in size?  They're both .mov files at the end.
> Four times longer and half in size makes no sense to me.  Mov is mov isn't it?
> 
> Paul Moortgat