He cut the frame rate down to about 9 fps. Fewer frames to encode means a smaller file size.
Two ways to shrink the file size are to cut the frame rate and/or cut the resolution. Instead of making the video 640x480 you make it 320x240 or some other size that is less than 640x480. Instead of making it 30 fps you make it 15 fps.
If you try to compress the video too much you get blocky video or blurry video. You can only compress it so far until the compression artifacts get too noticeable. To avoid that problem you cut the frame rate or cut the resolution to get the file size down.
then i have to import it into wmm2 and then export into .wmv with however file size you want…
i dont think the frame rate is dropped in this trailer.
i know its 640x480 and about 555kbps, but maintained frame rate.
normal avi is 758x576 (i think) and about 3.5mbps so yeah.
anyways… im adding a little bit of muni. to break up the street riding…
i think it will be better, and making the video longer. (all you street fans can skip this section)
I hate it when theres always more stuff you can put in the video.
nothing ever gets finished
dude thats some awesome riding, but we’ll have to see how it matches up to dan’s stuff. im just happy to see so many unicyclists putting out videos, dont stop!
My error. I used AVIcodec to check the frame rate and that tool doesn’t give correct numbers for WMV files. WMV files can have a variable frame rate and AVIcodec doesn’t take that in to account. After looking at the video in Windows Media Encoder it looks like it has an expected frame rate of 29 and an average frame rate of about 22.
WM9 does a very good job of compression. It’s probably one of the best for getting a small file size with good visual quality.