Freemake Video Converter

CUTTING AND CONVERTING A VIDEO DOWN TO A SPECIFIC SIZE

Post Production Editing for Education Certification Requirements Part of the certification process includes producing a ten or five minute video of the candidates classroom performance, usually with a file size of no more than 100 MB. This document will cover the two video editing processes used to limit length and file size. The software program used for this will be Freemake. It is Freeware and can be downloaded and installed without cost. Library technology staff is available to assist with both the installation and editing help. 1. Open the Freemake program through Start All Programs Freemake Freemake Video Converter.

2. To add your video, simply drag and drop the file in the center window, or use the File Add video menu item and browse to the file.

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CUTTING AND CONVERTING A VIDEO DOWN TO A SPECIFIC SIZE

4. The first thing to do is cut the video down to the correct length. The video must be one contiguous piece, so you will be removing frames from the beginning and/or end. Now that the video is loaded into Freemake, you can see the current length of the video; in this case it is 2:16 minutes long.

5. Double click the video to start playing. On the playback menu, you will see 6 buttons under Cutting, of which we will use 3.

Start Selection a. Cut Selection

Selection End

6. Click Start Selection at the point where you want it to begin. 7. Click Selection End where you want it to end. 8. Click Cut Selection to complete. The original file is not changed, just what plays. 9. Click OK. 10. Next, you will save the file in MP4 format. MP4 is a great way to provide high quality videos along with compression that gives great file size. Other file types can be used, such as AVI

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CUTTING AND CONVERTING A VIDEO DOWN TO A SPECIFIC SIZE

and WMV if you have a preference, as long as it produces a file within the size limit. To convert, with the video highlighted, click to MP4.

11. A window will come up allowing you to rename and choose where to save the result. Note the path and name of the file you are creating so you can find it when you are done.

12. The files size of the video needs to be a specific size, normally under 100 Mb. Notice this one will be 245 Mb.

13. To limit the final size, click the button.

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CUTTING AND CONVERTING A VIDEO DOWN TO A SPECIFIC SIZE

14. Click convert and all you have left is to wait!

15. Click OK. 16. Click Close and you are done! Note the file size has gone down to 78 MB

from the original 442 MB.