Compressing Pinnacle files?

My brother called me with a question to which I had NO IDEA of the answer. But I told him I could find out. I did a search (for "Pinnacle") and didn't find much on the tech specs about Pinnacle, so if you guys have any thread titles with this premise, please fire away.

My brother is in the process of editing a video that is nothing but still pictures set to music. He has about 3 1/2 minutes (50 pictures) worth of footage with music covering the whole thing, and it weighs in at over 700 MB!!! This sounded totally absurd to both him and me, and my thought was that somewhere in either the editing or burning process, there has to be a way to compress the file. This is an MPEG-2 file, and the MPEG-4 would be like 650 megs, he said. .avi is over a gig at just 3 1/2 minutes. He wants to put about 30 minutes' worth of stuff on there, and he doesn't have enough space at this time-space ratio.

Any tips to making smaller pinnacle photo-transition-music files? He's using Pinnacle Studio 10.

Thanks for the help. :D

Brother? I don't remember you having a brother!

Perhaps this unknown fruit of my loins will be less of a disappointment to me than you and your sister?

Does he have a myspace?

Raw DV is 2 gigs evey 9 minutes. Buy a SATA hard drive for video editing. (serial ATA) He might need an expansion card $32 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=378896

You can compress (when your done editing) to whatever you like. WMV's are my favorite.

The video editor is saving the working file as a .AVI uncompressed video file. Depending on how much compression you want, the video can be rendered when editing is finished as a WMV, MPEG2, MPG4 or MOV file This is just a menu selection like "make movie". After the movie is rendered, you will need to eigher backup the uncompressed AVI file(s), or simply delete it. If you never delete your working AVI files you will soon need a really large array of disks.

Cirque: 600 MB as MPEG 4? That doesn't seem right.

He has done this. His current file choice is MPEG 2.

What gives?