I was helping a teacher stitch together about 30 videos from an iPad into one long file. As many of you know, videos recorded on an iPad are in .mov format. This produces high quality video, but also HUGE sized files. Even with her relatively short videos, we're talking about 1,000s of MBs. At first, I converted them to .avi format, attempting to maintain quality and reduce file size. They were still too big for our virtual environment to handle. Then, I converted them to .wmv format. This reduced them into more manageable sizes, but I was concerned about the degradation of the video. In the end, I think the quality was still decent enough, with clear video and clean audio.
One hiccup was that she recorded most of the videos in portrait mode, so when I tried to import them into video editing software, they were sideways. I used MoviePlus, which allowed me to rotate the videos. Windows MovieMaker does this too, but in both programs, the rotated videos end up out of proportion. MoviePlus is more versatile, and I was able to use the transform feature to reshape the videos back to their original dimensions. This is an example of how sometimes a task you expect to take 10 minutes, stretches out much longer.
Have nice weekend.
PS It took me an extra 40 minutes to get home. This is time that would have been better spent working later at school or spending at home with my family. Grrrrrrrrrr.
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