Originally Posted by Crusty If you can, keep the screen size of the video large. Reduce the frame rate to shrink the file size instead. Then aim for a bit rate of about 400k to 800k bps with an MP4 compressor, like Microsoft's WMV9 or the free XviD codec. VirtualDub, free, will manage the compresion process well.
Online users tolerate the lower frame rates, it's been the norm for years. |
If you reduce the frame rate, but keep the bitrate constant, the filesize will be the same, n'est pas? By definition it's "amount of data processed per second". So the file size will be the same, but the amount of frame changes will be less, meaning the quality per frame could arguably be better. It also take less processing power...
But the file size, won't change... (at least that's the theory - know for a fact that changing the frame dimensions does not change the file size).