My experiment with Windows Media Encoder, part II
Thanks to Zhan, who is an awesome troubleshooter, for letting me know it was better to use CBR (constant bit rate) rather than VBR (variable bit rate) to compress the file. That worked fine. And the new file size is about 20% of the original. After another run through to increase the video size, I think I've finally got this working. And the Windows Media File Editor utility is *extremely* easy to use to trim the ends of the files.
So without a lot of pain, I've learned something new this week, which might actually come in handy at home, too. My husband is attaching a video camera to his motorcycle when he takes it to the track and will be capturing a bunch of video. Maybe I can turn those into cool little movies, by using Windows Movie Maker. Just call me Anandi Ford Coppola. :)
So now my computer is tied up compressing a 1.3 GB file. It uses 98% of the CPU so I can't use it while it's doing this. Perhaps I'll use my laptop to work from home tomorrow and use Remote Desktop to continue compressing the training files on my work machine.
It sure is quiet out there. Is anyone still reading my blog?
