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I can't email a minute and a half video I took with 4S because it's too big?
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Blame the OP and call it the emal!.. ya right! my email can and will send a 20meg file and yes I have sent a 18MB file so don't blame email.. next it's the OP.. ya he can't figure out how to press the arrow and say "email" that's complex.. tell me sir what am I missing on that two button combo that going to allow to email a larger then 5mb compressed video file?
The "limit" is set by your carrier. An almost 2 minute video is going to use a lot of bandwidth and they are trying to tell you to use your desktop. Maybe they will allow you to do it with your iPhone via WiFi.
The hardware being used to send a file isn't the problem. GMail has a 25MB limit for attachments, I believe Yahoo's is 10MB. Phone, computer, microwave, space station...doesn't matter...it's the email provider who is placing the limits on file size.
I sent a 1:59 video from my 4S via iMessage...took a few minutes to go through but got to both recipients without issue.
Lol have you been reading how large of a file the OP is trying to send? Most emails have a size limit of 25mb so your 20mb and 18mb files should send fine. But when the OP is trying to send a 300mb file that just ain't gonna work. No one is blaming the OP for anything. They just can't get over the fact that it's not the iPhones fault and should be blaming it on their email.
thats an awful comparison. Computers are used to manage HD video all the time...it still can't be emailed from them. If anything should be "expected" to be able to send an HD video over email, it should be a computer...but regardless, nothing can, as the file size is too large for any email service.
Several proposed solutions, at least one of which (dropbox) would be superior to just emailing it as an attachment, have been proposed in this thread. Clearly you don't want a way to do it, as you have been ignoring those. You are just here to troll
It's not the Carrier, if it was the carrier the email would be rejected and you would recive a msg from your carrier the same as if you do it from a desktop computer. the "video is Too Long" msg comes up the second you click on "email Video" button, this is the phone saying NO! it has nothing to do with your carrier. if you "select a smaller clip" as the phone suggests by clicking the "ok" button and just mail the largest file you can. you will see the message you receive on the other end is 5MB.
Ps. thanks for the info on the imessage.. I tried it and it worked.. however I can't txt msg video to my computer.. tried that too.. I can txt msg too and from my yahoo account but no images or video's go through
I have emailed movies created on my iPhone 4 larger than 5MB in size. I have AT&T and using gmail as my email provider. Not sure why you're limited in the way you are.
What version OS are you using?
I simply dont understand most of you guys. I understood the question to be fairly simple. Paraphrasing.... I want to send 1.5mins of video via email.. the size of the file that is outputted seems too large for email so how can the file be reduced/compressed through the iphone so said video can successfully meet the attachment size criteria.
ie: How can we get the same video length at probably a reduced quality (not HD) but email-able. I couldn't see this a slight on apple or the iphone... but thats despite the point.
Can the iphone 4s shoot at lower resolution or perhaps compress the video to be sent?
My answer (though be it several months late) would be to say that no I cant see anyway of reducing the file size on the iphone at the moment nor can I see how to reduce to the resolution of the video to make it easier to email simple short clips. And yes... its is frustrating.
I found that the longer process if you want to use email would be to reduce the file with a video converter that will convert to .MP4 and reduce the resolution to get the file size down. Unfortunately this has to be done on the computer.
If I find an app I will respond again.. so at least this thread has some semblance of an answer. Yes I am frustrated.. and pretty tired of reading stupid remarks attacking an OP for a question. If he wants to email... then he wants to email and has his own reasons for that.
I'll shup now.
Cheers, Rau
ie: How can we get the same video length at probably a reduced quality (not HD) but email-able. I couldn't see this a slight on apple or the iphone... but thats despite the point.
Can the iphone 4s shoot at lower resolution or perhaps compress the video to be sent?
My answer (though be it several months late) would be to say that no I cant see anyway of reducing the file size on the iphone at the moment nor can I see how to reduce to the resolution of the video to make it easier to email simple short clips. And yes... its is frustrating.
I found that the longer process if you want to use email would be to reduce the file with a video converter that will convert to .MP4 and reduce the resolution to get the file size down. Unfortunately this has to be done on the computer.
If I find an app I will respond again.. so at least this thread has some semblance of an answer. Yes I am frustrated.. and pretty tired of reading stupid remarks attacking an OP for a question. If he wants to email... then he wants to email and has his own reasons for that.
I'll shup now.
Cheers, Rau