Expert: Andre Hickman - 4/19/2004

Question
hey, i had a huge file that was 911.01 MB and i wanted to burn it do u know how can burn it because the maximum a cd i have is 700 MB.

i tried splitting the file but i think it resulted in fuzzy unclear pictures.. is there a way to fix the fuzzyness and unclairity ? how?

ps the picture used to be perfect and very clear before i tried splitting and burnung it...

please help me... i tried soo many ways and i cant do any thing about it...

please send it as soon as u can thankz

thanxz in advance

jess  

Answer
Hey Jess,

First I need to know what video editing softwares that you have at your disposal (i.e. Adobe Premiere, Final Cut, Pinnacle...etc) Chances are you are going to have to adjust your video/audio compression to get a smaller file size, or use a totally different compression all together.  Have you ever looked into Divx compression.  It can take a 900mb file and compress it to under 40 or 50mb, easily, and still be very clear.  The only issue with it is that you have to have the Divx player software to view it (as well as a software to create it.)

Try divx.com for software, and check out this site to see just how divx compression looks: http://www.jefflew.com/anim.html

Cheers,
Andre'