Decrease Video Size

[oriolesprospect]

I'm making a digital prospect guide for my website. I am embedding video into a PDF.

I need a way to convert these videos down to about 10-15 mb each. The videos will be small, maybe slightly larger than an iPod nano screen.

What program will shrink these videos for me? I tried MPEG Stremclip but the video size actually went up.

Thanks,
Jordan

 

[spinnerlys]

MPEG Streamclip can do this, but you have to use the right codec?

Which one did you use and with what settings and what format?

 

[oriolesprospect]

MPEG Streamclip can do this, but you have to use the right codec?

Which one did you use and with what settings and what format?

Sorry I dont know what codec is

I was converting from 960 x 540 to 320 x 180.

 

[spinnerlys]

Sorry I dont know what codec is

I was converting from 960 x 540 to 320 x 180.

A codec is used to compress data, for instance video. H264 is a very prominent one right now and often used with .mov or .mp4 files.

Open the video in MPEG Streamclip, go to File > Export to QuickTime (CMD+E) and choose H264 as codec in the compression dropdown list at the top of that dialog.

Then there is a limit data rate option, where you can select KB/sec and if you enter a value, you can see the final file size.

If there is sound, you can also choose the MPEG-4 AAC (odec).