video playing slowly

[gelatin]

i have an ibookg4 1.25gb ram 22 gb hard disk space
i have a video which is about 590mb and 35 seconds long when i play it in quicktime it it really jumpy,slow laggy or whateveer the word is.
i need it to play smoothly so i can add some stuff to it in after effects

need help quick deadline comiing up
is there some program i can use to make the file size smaller while keeping the quality?
i am trying aaltshiiva atm i shall see how it goes

 

[bimmzy]

i have an ibookg4 1.25gb ram 22 gb hard disk space
i have a video which is about 590mb and 35 seconds long........

is there some program i can use to make the file size smaller while keeping the quality?
i am trying aaltshiiva atm i shall see how it goes

I'm just wondering. From the size of the file, it sounds like a QuickTime 7 HD movie clip, maybe??

If it is, your G4 processor is going to find it a bit of a struggle to decode.

If you had QuickTime Pro you might have better luck by converting it to "Apple intermediate Codec" of AIC.

On the plus side AIC requires less processing power. On the down side it makes the file mushroom in size . This may become a problem if the hard drive cannot deliver the data quickly enough for you G4 chip to process.

There is a solution to that though……. Get a Macbook!

 

[gelatin]

finally got it to play smooth in .dv format it is about 120 mb
but there is a quality loss,i have to have it for TV quality
is the quality too low?
top-compressed bottom-original

 

[bimmzy]

finally got it to play smooth in .dv format it is about 120 mb
but there is a quality loss,i have to have it for TV quality
is the quality too low?
top-compressed bottom-original

well there seems to be a drop in the quality yes.. the resolution is lower, and the gamma looks different. what did you use to convert it, and what is the name of the extention file?

DV is near broadcast tv qaulity (ntsc/pal/secam) by the way.

 

[gelatin]

i used toast titanium the extension is .dv