unable to upload video

[rgr]

Hi,

I'm new to tmunderground. I just finished a film (and by "finished" I mean I got tired of working on it and suffer from a definite lack of perfectionism) and wanted to upload it to the site with my shiny new membership. After filling out everything and trying to complete the upload, I get a strange error message right away, with an error code of 0. The video file is ~185MB and runs just shy of seven minutes long, and is in quicktime format (.mov).

Since this is my first time trying this, it's entirely possible that I'm doing something wrong, but really am unable to identify it.

Can anybody assist? Is there any information I can provide to help figure out what's wrong?

Thanks

rgr

[Uber]

Try uploading to a video hosting site, VEOH, Vimeo, Youtube, etc and embedding it here. Or try exporting to AVI or wmv.

[Killian]

Greetings, Rgr, and welcome to the madhouse!

As Uber says, you could try posting it via embed from one of the other sites, but a MOV format shouldn't really give you an issue. There can be problems sometimes with WMV format files, but I've upped a mov file before without issue.

Maybe the Bwana can think of something that we're missing? Or you could try exporting it again in AVI format and upload that.

[rgr]

Greetings, Rgr, and welcome to the madhouse!

As Uber says, you could try posting it via embed from one of the other sites, but a MOV format shouldn't really give you an issue. There can be problems sometimes with WMV format files, but I've upped a mov file before without issue.

Maybe the Bwana can think of something that we're missing? Or you could try exporting it again in AVI format and upload that.

I tried rendering it as an AVI straight from FCE, and it was noticeably lower quality, and more than double the size (over 500MB so couldn't even try it). I hate video formats and containers and codecs and all that crap, and I have no idea what the settings were (defaults from FCE's export menu).

I wound up uploading this to both youtube and vimeo and compared the quality. They look about the same to me, but vimeo looked better sooner -- youtube quality seems to have improved with time.

Anyway, I did the embed thing from vimeo.

Thanks everyone for your help!

rgr