wakepics

(ord27) · (ord27) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 7:43 AM

I'm havin trouble getting a video to upload

can anyone help?
can upload pics, but not video
I;ve tried mpeg1, mpeg2, avi
it's 2.5 minutes long
I know I've seen longer films on there

does it need to be compressed?

(trakkerguy) · (trakkerguy) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 12:29 PM

Cliff,

One of their requirements is it can't take longer than 600 seconds, so even if the file format and size is ok, but you have a slow connection (or their site is slow), it fails.

By the way, we are shipping your TopMount Trakker Monday, so you can get some more good video to play with next week

(ord27) · (ord27) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 2:02 PM

great
thanks Bryan
my connection is ok
but there are so many different ways to create a movie
I can't seem to make a small file
here is one that I did manage to get through...but I have to download it cause it'll only play on the windows player
it is filmed from the pan/tilt unit that is on top of a Trakker
the quality suffered cause of the way I saved it

Upload

http://www.wakepics.com/media.php?newest=true&limit=10

(trakkerguy) · (trakkerguy) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 2:22 PM

Quality looks ok to me. Have you tried saving (or exporting) to .wmv? Seems to work best for me with Premiere.

(ord27) · (ord27) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 2:27 PM

what do you save your movies as?
mpeg1?
wmv?
just rendered another one and it came out as 2gig
it's only a minute long

(ord27) · (ord27) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 2:39 PM

check the full movie out
you can see the diff angles from the Trakker and the pan/tilt
now I know that yull agree that this quality is bad
http://www.wakepics.com/view_single.php/me-and-my-bros-surfin_wakeboarding-photos.html?medid=19455

(trakkerguy) · (trakkerguy) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 07-08-2006, 2:51 PM

Yeah, pretty bad... I was looking at the first one with a small viewing window.

Definately not mpeg1. .wmv seems to yield the best quality for file size for me. Premiere 6.5 gives you lots of options on window size and connection speed that you can tinker with, but a 1 minute clip should be a lot better quality at 5-10 mb.

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 07-09-2006, 8:02 AM

wmv is about as good a compression scheme as there is out there, you're just setting the quality way too low. For a movie that length you'll e need to give it at least a 10 mb size to get any kind of quality. I could tell it was shot with a decent cam but it's just way too compressed.

(dcervenka) · (dcervenka) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 07-10-2006, 8:13 PM

I get good result using this method... http://www.dpcfilms.com/HowTo/articles/CompressingVideos/index.asp

Bump up the bit rate to 500-600kbps and you're golden.