Got a new offspring and want to send video to the grandparents. I've got a 1 minute clip taken with my Lumix TZ7 I'd like to send, but it's 236MB, 1200xsomething and in .mov format. Basically I'd like to shrink it to Youtube size and quality and be able to send it as an attachment to my VERY non-techy parents. I've tried Kdenlive (crashed while playing .mov file), Avidemux (plays file, allows me to trim, but I can't figure out resizing), Iriverter (successfully converts file to .avi, but only resizes to 220x176 and quality is poor).
I saw one of Nixiepixel's youtube videos where she talks about ffmpeg, but she only gives one example and doesn't explain the difference between video codec, audio codec, and wrapper settings. ffmpeg seems like the tool I want to use but like many command line tools, there are so many choices I don't know where to begin. I've read Howard Pritchett's excellent tutorial on ffmpeg at http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/ but it still doesn't answer my questions. I tried using winff, a GUI frontend for ffmpeg, but it crashes as soon as I try to load a clip.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Matt
I saw one of Nixiepixel's youtube videos where she talks about ffmpeg, but she only gives one example and doesn't explain the difference between video codec, audio codec, and wrapper settings. ffmpeg seems like the tool I want to use but like many command line tools, there are so many choices I don't know where to begin. I've read Howard Pritchett's excellent tutorial on ffmpeg at http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/ but it still doesn't answer my questions. I tried using winff, a GUI frontend for ffmpeg, but it crashes as soon as I try to load a clip.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Matt
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