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  1. M

    Pls Ignore!

    Apologies...posted to wrong forum...but MR won't let me delete?!
  2. Spaghet

    iMovie File is enormous

    I have a 50 min video in iMovie that I need to export. I know I can select different sizes but they all seem far too enormous for what they should be. Don’t want to go under 1080p under best: 4K: 166 gb 1080: 41.9 720: 21.35 540: 18.42 Under high: 4K: 10.31 1080: 7.09 720: 4.29 540: 2.54 are...
  3. Eagle 20

    PDF's too large to email, Please help ASAP!

    I have two PDF's I have to email to my Department of Attorney General (DAG), like yesterday! But I only have gmail and one of the PDF's is too large to even send by itself. So I am seriously in panic mode and need help fast :( One PDF is a four page letter, that when I right click and 'Get...
  4. G

    iPad iOS 11 Screen recording vs video file size?

    On iPad Pro 256 GB / iOS 11.4 1.) How do I find out the file size of a recording? 2.) Is there a difference in file size for screen recordings vs video recordings of the same length? I understand screen recording uses PNG as a file format, so I figured the quality and file size must be...
  5. P

    Grapher animation extremely bloated

    Grapher is awesome is so many ways, but the animation output is huge. I have a set of ~15 parameters that feed into two equations that describe two (2D) ellipses. The two ellipses are the only things I plot. But when I do a simple 10-frame animation of one of the underlying parameters, the...
  6. maverick28

    Resolved iMovie 9 produces gigantic files on import, fails to generate thumbnails

    Hello, dear friends, begging for your help, I'm recutting a video I made of individual video files 1.5 years ago. All went smoothly then but now it became such a pain and I can't seem to figure out why. Software: OS X 10.7.5, iMovie 9.0.9 Hardware: MacBook Pro, mid-2012 15" non-Retina, 2.3 GHz...
  7. lamerica80

    iOS iMovie video size

    So, i recorded and edited a short 3.5 minute video on my iPhone 7 (1080p @ 60fps) on imovie. It came out at roughly 400 gb witch obviously is too large to share etc. Any ideas on software or tricks to reduce the file size without loosing too much quality?
  8. S

    Desperately trying to use Compressor to get a small HQ file

    In a nutshell, I used Final Cut Pro X to create a master file that is 105 GB (2 hours long). It looks great but now I need to create a file that is small enough to fit on a DVD so my maximum size is 4.7 GB. When I used Compressor to create a video file for DVD (MPEG 2), the size is small...