There have been a number of folks that have recently asked me about how to get videos into the right format and small enough (has to be under 50MB) to add to their blog posts. So I thought I might throw together a quick tutorial.
First. You need to get a video file. The easiest way to do this is to take a video with your point and shoot digital camera. When you load your pictures onto your computer your video files (avi or mov) will come over with the pictures. AVI files are really big and will probably exceed the 50MB size limit that vox imposes on your uploads. So how the heck do you make them smaller?! Read on my knowledge thirsty friend....
Second. Download a free software program called "Super". You can get it at the following link (it is about a 30MB download): http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html This link is the first page, you actually have to hunt around for it and click through about 3 pages before you actually find the page with the link to download the EXE - not sure why they make it so tough. Here is a picture of the page where you actually can download the install file (click ont the picture to see it larger)
Third. Once you have installed the program you need to configure it like the screen shot below. #1 - pick MPG II video. #2 choose that option to create a blog sized video. #3 drag and drop your video file into the box. #4 click on the encode button to encode your file (turn it from a big fat AVI file to a nice small MPG file). One other thing...right click in the box down in #3 below and select "output file saving management". Then select the checkbox that says "save every output file in the same folder of its respective source file". This just means when your file is done encoding, the new and smaller file will be in the same place your orriginal was (but with a different file extension).
Have fun enriching your blogs with video!!
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Great info. Thanks!
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