I have a file that is 3Gb in size and I need to email it to a few people, as it's soooooo big I need to make it emailable.

The question is how do I do it, what program do I need and what size can I compress it to.

Thank you

i use this www.sendthisfile.com

works very well

If it's a picture, use this -

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

The tool called image resizer is brilliant and so easy and fast to use.

Will give them both a try thanks, hope the MS program is Vista proof.... the file is actually video that I have shot of our house, the family, the area here, Udon city, etc for the family back home...

Another option is to use a file splitter program like hjsplit before you use one of the file sharing sites. This will break the file into smaller pieces that you can upload one at a time. This way if you have a disconnect in the middle of the upload or download you won't have to start all over again. A disadvantage is that your recipient has to download and run the same program to join the files.

Another way to break up the file is to use a compression program like WinZip or, even better, WinRAR and tell it to break the file into chunks. You won't actually get much in the way of compression but when you re-assemble the file these programs will tell you if there's a piece that got corrupted during process.

fremmel, if i use winzip to comperss you are right it doesn't compress very much, how are the partial zipped files put back together again by the recipient.

You can upload your video to www.youtube.com and make it "private" to whoever you choose to view it. Although I have never done this myself, I went to HELP and it says it can be done.

Kudjap or Bust wrote:fremmel, if i use winzip to comperss you are right it doesn't compress very much, how are the partial zipped files put back together again by the recipient.

When you "compress" the file and tell WinZip to make smaller pieces you should get one file with the .zip extension and a series of files with .z01, .z02, etc. extensions. To put them back together just unzip the file with the .zip extension and it will automatically look for the others.

excellent thank you fremmel, I'll give it a go...

Hello Bust, if you don't care too much with quality of VDO then you may convert your VDO file to be other formats by using movie software such as Ulead etc..

Quality doesn't matter too much as long as the family can see the content. What would changing the file format do to the size of the file. As I say I can send up to 2Gb, would changing the format bring the size down this much?

Failing this is there any website where I can upload the VDO to and have individuals download for themselves? I want them to download rather than view.

Is this something You Tube does?

How long of your VDO file? more than 2 hours? if yes then your VDO may be DVD quality that could be reduced its size more than 4 times smaller to be VCD format. In addition it could be more reducing if you will convert it suitable with PDA or mobile phone.
Youtube , Mega-upload or etc. can do as your asking for but you have to register before.

would'nt know how to or if you can , but can you burn it on to a CD and send them that.

Depending on how often you're going to be doing this and how much time you want to invest in learning a software package there are a lot of different options for shrinking your video down to a more manageable size. Here are a couple of basic ones. XP, and I assume Vista, includes the Windows Movie Maker which looks like it will take a lot of different video formats as input and convert it to various size outputs, even down to email size. SUPER is another free converter that's suppose to do the same sort of thing and be pretty simple to use. I haven't used either of these but have heard some good things about SUPER.

I couldn't get super to work from the download so I did some research and I've found a program DVDshrink which has compressed the 3Gb to 1.95Gb......I have just emailled it to a friend to see if it comes out OK for the recipient. Still a slow way to send the viddie and I hope all my recipients have cable or dsl connections, wouldn't want to download 1.95Gb on a dial up......

BM - Yes I could burn it to DVD, but there's something like 20+ people I want to send to around the World, lot of burning and mailling thats why I was looking at a way to either compress and email it or store it somewhere for them to download.....and I want to make this a regular thing, albeit I don't think future viddies will be as big so I may be able to just email the source file.