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Right then, fellow fractal folks...
 
As a complete newbie, I got carried away...
Having been beavering away for the past 6 weeks,
(learning by trial and error and then forgetting it again)
I have now got my first M3D video that's longer than a few
'test' seconds, ready for tentative release on the world.
 
It has been saved as an avi in Virtual Dub and
is 5mins 50sec in length but (shock), 14.1 GB in size [!]
 
So what do folk recommend to compress it with to get it
into a manageable size/rate and quality before uploading it?
- and where to? Is it best/worst on Youtube or to opt for
specialist art sites? What are the size limits?
 
cheers
Kam

Hi Madman,

Thanks for your reply.

Of course, Vimeo. d'oh! I'll have to check that place out.

As it happens, in the wilderness before getting any replies, I've knocked together a makeshift shrunken version in
Windows Movie Maker and have just uploaded it to YouTube - I didn't realise their size limit was now a huge 1GB(!)
so, no messing with appropriate codecs just yet and I assume YouTube will have converted it into an FLV anyway.

Anyway I shall post the URL in the appropriate section, so here is the forum link for anyone interested:
http://www.fractalforums.com/videos/octopussies%27-garden/new/#new

cheers
kam