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Uploading Zip files
I have a good amount of short video clips and photos from France to put on the gallery. Is there a way of 'zipping' them all up into a file and uploading as a single file? I notice that the gallery mentions zip files, but I have never made it work
8th May 2007 9:35 am
AndrewS Tarquin of the Desert
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I to have tried to zip stuff bet it has never worked. I have simply put this down to the fact that I don't have a clue how to use a puter.In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
8th May 2007 9:37 am
simon
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Works OK for me... have you got .zip at the end of the file name ?
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ok, maybe its the file size. The zip file is rather large.
8th May 2007 9:51 am
simon
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7Mb limit according to the upload page.
8th May 2007 10:06 am
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I have a folder with 4 pictures in it. I zipped the folder and the folder size is 4.49 MB this will not up-load. however I zipped this picture and it has up-loaded. So it does work. I thought the whole point of zipping was to compress the folder/file/files then they would be small enough to send. If it means you have to zip the file individually to send I don't see the point as its just as easy to reduce the original and up-load as normal.
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zipping a file does compress it but not that much and there is a limit to how small the file will go.
Other tools such as Stuffit will do a better job of compressing but at the end of the day, JPEG's are a compressed format anyway and can't really be reduced that far beyond what they are already.
Zip is a lossless compressor - ie the file you get back post compressing is identical to the one you compressed.
Apart from reducing the image size (pixel dimensions) or applying a greater level of JPEG compression (also reducing the quality as JPEG is a lossy compressor), there's not much you can do.
8th May 2007 10:24 am
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I got a zip file to upload, but it remains as a zip file. (look in my sand driving gallery) I thought it would unzip into the gallery? although I notice that the message on the upload page says "zip files will remain compressed"
So I guess its doing what it says on the tin!.
Martin, is there anyway we can have the upload section able to do more than 5 files at a time? its a bit cumbersome and repetitive. I'm sure we would get many more pictures posted if this was improved. Then again, I suppose you may get too many!
8th May 2007 10:26 am
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It would be nice to be able to just select all the files you want uploading by using a windows explorer tye window instead of having to do the same for each of the five slots you have.Bodsys Brake Bible
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8th May 2007 10:39 am
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More help needed here
I have several short clips that I took on my new camera, they are in MyDocs\MyPics folder as Quicktime.MOV files.
I have in the past used Windows movie maker (I know its probably crap, but its on my PC!) to edit and shrink down video, and I have posted clips to DISCO3 in the past.
Moviemaker however won't work with .mov files. SO, I need a FREE movie editor that will read and let me edit/shrink etc the .MOV files so I can share them with you. Or I need to convert them to another format to use Movie maker.
I could put them on you tube? would that be better? opinions please?
8th May 2007 10:48 am
catweasel
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youtube or google (the latter has an unlimited upload size so make them as high a quality as you like) would save space on the disco server and I think google accepts quick time files. also on google you can mark as unlisted and post the link here so we can see it but it won't show up to the rest of the world 8)
you could give this a try
http://www.videohelp.com/mov2avi.htm
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8th May 2007 11:42 am
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Gareth wrote:
More help needed here
I have several short clips that I took on my new camera, they are in MyDocs\MyPics folder as Quicktime.MOV files.
I have in the past used Windows movie maker (I know its probably crap, but its on my PC!) to edit and shrink down video, and I have posted clips to DISCO3 in the past.
Moviemaker however won't work with .mov files. SO, I need a FREE movie editor that will read and let me edit/shrink etc the .MOV files so I can share them with you. Or I need to convert them to another format to use Movie maker.
I could put them on you tube? would that be better? opinions please?
I had the same problem - I spent £16 on Aone's MOV to AVI MPEG WMV Convertor and it does the conversion job byootifully!
I should say this just converts MOV's to WMV's - they're still large - but then you can run them in Movie Maker, had some titles and music and generated a nice compact WMV file Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
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