10-12-2006, 12:55 AM
I don't know much about video editing with Windows software, but I know for that platform Adobe and Sony both have some good software available.
About the size/quality issue, frame rate and audio quality have a lot to do with the final size...I personally can't offer much help on this matter though because I make everything as high quality as possible and just live with the big file size, I can't stand working on projects for a long time only to encode them with crappy quality. Encode your audio in the AAC format to help reduce size, its probably raw. Also try reducing your data rate, video size (320x240 etc). That should help
There are tons of sites and forums out there that offer help, look around and ask for advice, thats what I did (mainly on the apple.com forums) and got tons of excellent advice. Good luck and happy filming!
About the size/quality issue, frame rate and audio quality have a lot to do with the final size...I personally can't offer much help on this matter though because I make everything as high quality as possible and just live with the big file size, I can't stand working on projects for a long time only to encode them with crappy quality. Encode your audio in the AAC format to help reduce size, its probably raw. Also try reducing your data rate, video size (320x240 etc). That should help
There are tons of sites and forums out there that offer help, look around and ask for advice, thats what I did (mainly on the apple.com forums) and got tons of excellent advice. Good luck and happy filming!