changing MWV to MPEG

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I teach high school JROTC. Two years ago I have each member of my drill
team a CD with all of their competitions on it. I used Studio 7. The MPEG
files are each under 2MG. This year I decided to use MS Movie Maker. To my
shock, I found the files ranged from 250MG to 700MG. Unfortunately I no
longer have the original tapes.

Is there a way to change the WMVs to MPEGs or at least make them reasonably
sized? I tried importing the 250MG file into MM and telling it to make a
movie to fit in 150MG as a test. But it wanted 185 minutes. Hate to see
how the 700MG file would do.

Thanks in advance,

Terry
 
Terry said:
I teach high school JROTC. Two years ago I have each member of my drill
team a CD with all of their competitions on it. I used Studio 7. The MPEG
files are each under 2MG. This year I decided to use MS Movie Maker. To
my shock, I found the files ranged from 250MG to 700MG. Unfortunately I no
longer have the original tapes.

Is there a way to change the WMVs to MPEGs or at least make them
reasonably sized? I tried importing the 250MG file into MM and telling it
to make a movie to fit in 150MG as a test. But it wanted 185 minutes.
Hate to see how the 700MG file would do.

Thanks in advance,

Terry
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First there are many conversion tools available to convert from WMV to MPG.
You can google or check out this site:
http://www.videohelp.com/convert

2nd that 185 minutes it asks for usually doesn't truly end up being 185
minutes.
If you let it go for a while you will see what I mean, those minutes drop
off in seconds and you'll likely end up waiting closer to 25 minutes than
185 (just a guess as far as the true times).
 
Boy, I just re-read what I wrote. I guess I shouldn't try communicating
when I'm sick with a fever. But I think you can tell what I tried to say.
 
Well I took MWV to mean WMV and I didn't take MG to mean Milligrams but
actually MB Megabyte

Which means my answer still stands. :-)
 
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