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Compressing video

Hi, I am very new to macs, just bought a G4 mirror drive from my friend. It has all the usual mac programs including final cut pro. I have a short 4minute video I shot with my digital camera and would like to email it but its a huge file (278mb) I noticed a program called compressor, followed the instructions and I would get a message "cannot submit" I soon noticed this is an annoying problem for most people using compressor and I am too new to macs to try the complicated solution to that problem. Is there a free easy to use decent compression program I can use so I can email my video? In the future I would like to purchase a quality compression program, which do you folks reccomend? Can I compress my video through Imovie? Does Imovie have its own compression feature or does it use that annoying mac compressor? Any help is appreciated.
 
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iMovie can not only compress, but upload it to your youtube account for you, too!

But I like ffmpegX for video conversion/compression.
 
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I imported a 15meg size video clip into imovie, and once loaded into imovie, I noticed the size isnow 276megs! Is this normal? why the increase in size. And how come I don't hear audio from the video clip? Is that normal? how can I play the clip and hear the sound as well? Thanks in advance.
 
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I dont think so, just the size. But if you 'export' you get all the quicktime setting, so you can basically do anything you want from there.
 
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How come imovie does not work with mpeg video? I imported an mpeg clip into imovie, video plays fine but no audio. When I try to extract audio from the clip, imovie crashes. What format do I need to convert my mpeg video inorder to make it work properly with imovie? I don't understand why imovie doesn't show a warning message before importing an mpeg that that file type will not work with imovie.
 

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