I have bought a digital video camera, and I have to say this is bloody confusing. I see all these videos on Youtube, or watch say the RacerX stuff online, and there seems to be plenty of people who can produce a nice, clear video that isn't 500Mb in size. But how?
I upload the video off my camera (even doing that leaves me confounded), and it's pretty average quality to begin with. But a few minutes of video is 200-300 Mb. OK, so I save it out as MPG and push it through Windows Movie Maker to get a WMV out the other end. But what I get is a 200x300 image, very low quality, and still 5-10 Mb.
What's the right size (both pixels and Mb) for a video to be reasonable quality and easily downloaded off the web? What software should I use? I assume Movie Maker is a fairly basic tool and not really suitable.
Here's a sample video of the lads at Fairbairn riding in the Over 35s class. It's maybe 1.5 minutes long, 200x300 or whatever, and 6 Mb. To me it's crappy, but maybe I am being overly critical?
http://www.ozvmx.com/video/vid4.wmvAny advice to offer?
