I still wish I could get the stupid AVI to save properly
Ack! I'm so sorry, I asked you questions about that and then totally left you hanging. My brain/sieve=OTP, I swear. But the thing is, I have no idea how reducing 2:1 could leave you with the same size file. NO idea.
On the other hand, shalott's DivX encoding tutorial (http://www.livejournal.com/users/astolat/51221.html) has worked very well for me in reducing filesize and keeping the quality up, and without doing a 2:1 reduction - the online version of LTID is 720x480. To give you an idea, the vid I exported from Premiere at full size, HuffyUV compression, was 1.7 Gb; what I was left with after following shalott's steps was 16 Mb. (This was the remastered, somewhat bigger version.) So all I can recommend is to try that and hope for the best.
But yes, I liked it whole lots, and the aspect ratio looked fine - I just checked, and it looks just as I would expect the movie itself to look on my TV, letterboxed but not stretched. Sharp & full of color, too.
And I'll have you know that "Live Till I Die" is the one vid that I watch the most often from this.
That is just...thanks so much, that absolutely made my day. :-)
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Ack! I'm so sorry, I asked you questions about that and then totally left you hanging. My brain/sieve=OTP, I swear. But the thing is, I have no idea how reducing 2:1 could leave you with the same size file. NO idea.
On the other hand, shalott's DivX encoding tutorial (http://www.livejournal.com/users/astolat/51221.html) has worked very well for me in reducing filesize and keeping the quality up, and without doing a 2:1 reduction - the online version of LTID is 720x480. To give you an idea, the vid I exported from Premiere at full size, HuffyUV compression, was 1.7 Gb; what I was left with after following shalott's steps was 16 Mb. (This was the remastered, somewhat bigger version.) So all I can recommend is to try that and hope for the best.
But yes, I liked it whole lots, and the aspect ratio looked fine - I just checked, and it looks just as I would expect the movie itself to look on my TV, letterboxed but not stretched. Sharp & full of color, too.
And I'll have you know that "Live Till I Die" is the one vid that I watch the most often from this.
That is just...thanks so much, that absolutely made my day. :-)