How to make a video available for download

I shot two videos of a tall ship’s cannon firing. I’d like to make it available such that roomie can download it on her computer. The first one is 37 meg, and the second is 22 meg; so emailing is out. I have a 10 meg limit. I assume they can be compressed, but I don’t know how to do that. Failing that, is there someplace I can upload them so that they can be downloaded? Flickr let me upload them (obviously, since I linked them here), but you can’t download from there. Photobucket lets you download, but I don’t see that videos can be uploaded.

Thanks, ZipperJJ.

Actually, I figured out how to use iMovie and got it down to an emailable 5.7 meg. :wink:

You can post them on YouTube and tell your friend to get YouTube Downloader. Free, and works pretty well, if not always real fast.

For future reference on things like this, if you get to choose the file format the smallest video file size will usually be a Flash video file (.flv). They’re generally half the size of an mpeg or mov or wmv (they’re what YouTube uses).

YouSendIt.com.

Apparently my little Nikon CoolPix L1 saves them as .mov files. (First time I’ve used the video function – in the four or five years I’ve had it.) Pretty big files for such short clips. I stuck the two clips together in iMovie and saved the project, then tried to upload to YouTube. YouTube said, ‘I don’ wanna.’ So then I actually read the iMovie help and found how to save it as a .mov file compressed for the web and got it down to 5.7 meg. I was able to email it to roomie.

I also uploaded it to YouTube.