Hello All.
i have a load of movies to go and put on Vimeo but they are all to big to be let on. all of them are in ‘HD’ (1280x720) as that size works with the televisions over here in england. i need someone to tell me how to encode it so they will be under 500mb. please keep in mind that i am using Linux not Windows or Mac so i cant use the likes of windows movie maker. your’e help will be appreciated.
-josh
I’m in New Zealand so won’t understand much beyond my own local PAL 25 fps… have you tried plain old ffmpeg?
nope i have not, ill try it after i finish my latest blender animation project
Well, obviously these are for computers, not television, so you can scale down the picture size considerably.
You can encode using mencoder, transcode or ffmpeg. Those three alone pretty much cover everything as far as codecs, filters, and post-processing is concerned.
Encode using h264 for the video codec, AAC for the audio (if any) and dumping it into an MP4 (or M4V) container. This is very high compression, quality, and has become pretty standard across all platforms.