My son's band had a gig last night along with a number of other bands. I recorded their half hour set on digital camcorder and have uploaded it to my PC in MPEG format. I want to be able to split it up and then upload say 1 song in video format to Myspace or Youtube but the MPEG is enormous - 600-650MB for 30 minutes, say nearly 100MB for one song.

Any thoughts on locost (i.e. free!) software to convert MPEG to another format and compress it on the way? I already have a package that can split the MPEG down into chunks

Thanks in advance.

Personally ide use google video n do the whole thing in one go. then paste it in to there myspace profile

John

Ive just been told adobe premier is good, im sure you can find a demo on there site to do one cutup. or if uve already got the software and just lost the CD im sure theres a copy on the torrent sites

Super

http://www.erightsoft.com/home.html

If you have xp, why not try Windaz Movie Maker in Start, All Programs & Accesories, not that good but may do the biz for you.

Rich

Divx do a converter which is not free but it isn't too expensive. There is a 15 day trial on their website if you just want to do a one off.

Dr Divx

It works, easy to use, open source......you will need to download a codec if you dont already have one! Read the faq and documentation...i.e. I dont offer support

Happy encoding!!!

[Edited on 12/11/06 by Sacal]

Dr Divx [or newer divx converter] are great, and easy to use.

Thanks for the replies... Dr Divx looks the best/easiest, but it keeps crashing when I try to convert an MPEG that has been split out of the full original MPEG (using NanoPeg)