Sending video's

Took 3 x videos on my smart phone today, intending to send them to a building owner.

They are 109, 110 & 131 MB and I can't send them because "The size of the message you are trying to send exceeds the global size limit (52000000 bytes) of the server. The message was not sent; reduce the message size and try again".

How can I reduce the size? Or is there another way?

Took 3 x videos on my smart phone today, intending to send them to a building owner.

They are 109, 110 & 131 MB and I can't send them because "The size of the message you are trying to send exceeds the global size limit (52000000 bytes) of the server. The message was not sent; reduce the message size and try again".

How can I reduce the size? Or is there another way?

Upload them to youtube, or use dropbox.

Memory stick then post or an on line service like Dropbox.

Seriously, those files are way too big for normal mail servers. I think Yahoo restricts attachments to 5Mb max.

Tim

Do you mean you actually tried to email them? I try to avoid sending emails of more than about half a megabyte.

Use one of the various large file sending services (quite a few are free for limited use) or a cloud store and send a link.

E.g.

Or

If you have not yet got an account with Dropbox (or similar), get one.

When I have needed to do this I have uploaded it to youtube and sent them the link.

Mark the video "private" and disable leaving comments to prevent anything unbusinesslike appearing.

Best tool for the job (PC/Windows) in my opinion is Handbrake, and it's free. See

Better still is to simply upload it to YouTube. Then all you have to do is send them the link. You will need to create an account if you don't have one already, but if you have a gmail account or any other Google account, then they can be used to login to YouTube as well. There is an option when you upload a video to either set it as unlisted (so that only those who know the exact link can access it) or restrict access only to certain Google accounts.

I regularly compress using Handbrake and upload to YouTube when I need to send videos to people.

HTH.

As a rough rule of thumb, any email under about 10Mb is very likely to work just fine, anything over will probably fail.

I see quite a few systems set up with limits at 2 or 5 MB - but the reason I avoid doing so is more to do with the sizes of email storage files (e.g. .pst or .ost for Outlook). They grew fast enough anyway so, out of a sort of politeness, I try to avoid adding more than necessary - both to my own Sent items and to recipients' stores.

I upload to Google Plus, although the "share" part is not very intuitive

If a regular thing - Compress to MP4 standard (if not already) .. most phones offer that as video format. Resize to appropriate pixel size (720 x 576 is still high quality) - phone may be saving as 1080 HD

Then Upload to a file sharing site (Vimeo, MediFire, 4Shared etc.)

Or even simpler way - if it's one-off, and you can't be bothered to figure out compression & resizing, is upload to Youtube as personal video and give him the Youtube link It would then take care of resizing & compression for you.

There is even a Youtube app for your phone.

Never send stuff that is big via email, use a file sharing site like Dropbox. Brian

I notice that your posts of original content all arive in triplicate these days. Brian

If this is something you want to do go into the phone's camera settings and change the 'recording mode' to 'limit for MMS'. (These are the terms on Android, others will be similar.)

My partner can't send 2Mb photos to some of the people on her mailing list, because their systems reject them. I have to use PIXresizer to reduce anything she wants to email.

Colin Bignell

FWIW, this is what I use for photos:

I use it in the dead-easy drag & drop mode where you drag & drop (or copy & paste) the filename(s) of the photo(s) you want to resize onto the filename 'PhotoResizeXXXX.exe' - where you change the original '400' to 'XXXX' to give you sensible size(s) (50 to 70kB is good for general-purpose e-mailing). Regardless where you put the exe file, the resulting new files are produced in the same folder as the source files, and have the suffix XXXX. The originals are not affected.

I see that the latest version has several additional bells and whistles you can use, but I prefer simply to do the simple resize, and thereafter titivate the resulting pictures using one of many imaging programs.

In article , Ian Jackson writes

Don't if your proggy does this but one of my go to features on Irfanview is his set-longest-size-to setting in the batch conversion section so that you can convert various resolutions in a folder to one size without concerns of whether the are landscape or portrait.

In message , fred writes

It's quite some time since I used Irfanview (which is excellent). I think that Picture Resizer (D&D mode) does indeed set the resolution of the longest side. It's ages I read the instructions. My favourite imaging program is FastStone Viewer.