u/MathematicianFun5765

File Sizes

Hi, I am not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this to but I will try anyway,

I have been trying to digitize some of my MiniDV tapes and have gotten through 8 so far by using WinDV with the camera attached to my pcie firewire card. The videos look good but since WinDV is an older software, it still uses AVI, making the 8 tapes take up almost 100gb. I want to put these on my apple photos library (I have 2tb iCloud).

Is there any way that I can downsize these files or put them into a different format like mp4 or mov without causing any drastic/visible change in quality? I do have a MacBook but it is running out of storage pretty fast and I don't want to have more on it than I have to. Especially since Apple likes clogging iCloud photos and videos into my System Files folder

Thank you

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u/MathematicianFun5765 — 2 days ago
▲ 7 r/MiniDV+1 crossposts

File sizes

Hi, I am not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this to but I will try anyway,

I have been trying to digitize some of my MiniDV tapes and have gotten through 8 so far by using WinDV with the camera attached to my pcie firewire card. The videos look good but since WinDV is an older software, it still uses AVI, making the 8 tapes take up almost 100gb. I want to put these on my apple photos library (I have 2tb iCloud).

Is there any way that I can downsize these files or put them into a different format like mp4 or mov without causing any drastic/visible change in quality? I do have a MacBook but it is running out of storage pretty fast and I don't want to have more on it than I have to. Especially since Apple likes clogging iCloud photos and videos into my System Files folder

Thank you

reddit.com
u/MathematicianFun5765 — 2 days ago