Compress high quality 3GP videos for mobiles — guide

$Alizee\'s La Isla bonita in high quality 3gp video, compressed after following this tutorial. - TechLighten.com$

If you used to search the web for a 3GP version of your favorite video so that you could enjoy some high quality movies on your mobile phone, your search is over. No you won’t have to ask others to compress a video for your mobile phone because at the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to compress any of your favorite video or movie to a high quality .3GP format movie yourself.

If you regularly watch videos on your mobile phone, you already know how pixelated and badly compressed most of those movies look. With this tutorial, we’ll follow some steps, use a nice compression software, and tune up a few things so that you’ll get videos with the the highest quality possible, and even that with a minor increase in the file size.

In order to compress the movie, first you’ll be needing this very nice audio/video compression tool called Super © video converter, to download it go here and you’ll see a very lengthy page, go to the very end of the page and you’ll see a link saying “start downloading Super (C)”, click on that link and you’ll be forward to a final page, where you can download the program (Yes, I know the download is a little awkward, but thats how the Super (C) wants people to go through their pages before they’re able to get a download).

After you’re done with downloading the setup for Super C video converter and install it. During the installation process, you might get a few messages just ignore them.

Once Super C is installed, open it up (if you’re on vista, you might need to right click on the icon and run it as an administrator). Super C will check some requirements that it needs, whatever message it gives, just press ok (as normally any current PC is ok to run Super C, unless you want to compress huge videos as then you’ll need more RAM and CPU power).

Since we’ll be compressing our videos to 3GP format, select “3GP” as the output format, MPEG4 as the video codec and AAC LC as the Audio codec just as shown in the pictur below.

After choosing the right options, now we have to select the video options. If you’re using a phone like Sony Ericsson’s K750, W700, W800, W810, W550 etc, then select the 176:144 “Video Scale Size” from the Video row, 25 frames per second, with 250 kbps bitrate.

If you’re using Sony Ericsson’s K790, K800, K810, K850, W850, W900 etc then because of the large screen and powerful mobile cpu you can choose 240:320 “Video Scale Size” (which’ll give you far superior video quality (as you can see from the top image of this post)). Same 25 frames/sec video speed and choose a bitrate of 450 kbps for the video, just like as shown in the screenshot below.

The next step is to select some nice audio options so that you can enjoy a good audio experience along with he nicely compressed 3GP video. Choose 22050 as the sampling frequency, 2 Channels and choose the bitrate to 96 kbps (if you’re using K750, W700, W800, W810 etc you can also choose 64kbps audio quality if you are going to compress very long videos like movies for example, it’ll save your mobile videos from lagging). Select the options as shown in the screenshot below.

After choosing these options, now all you have to do is to select your favorite movie or video, and get it encoded by Super C. To select the media file that you want to encode, (1) right click on the area below OUTPUT, as shown in the following image, and (2) click on “Add Multimedia Files”. A browse window should open up and now just locate and select the required video file.

Now you’ll see the video file in the list. In my case I’m compressing Alizee’s La Isla Bonita (very famous video of this hot and nice singer). After the video is in the list just click on “Encode (Active Files)”. Make sure the video is ticked in the list just like as shown below.

$Selecting the desired video file that you want to compress into 3GP format, it\'ll work on any sony ericsson, samsung or nokia phones.$

Now give Super C a little time to compress your video. The compression doesn’t take very long, time-taken depends on the video size and the compression options. After the compression process is done, your compressed 3GP file will be stored in C:/Program Files/eRight Software/Super/Output directory.

As you can see by the status bar screenshot below, Super C has compressed a 49MB file to a nice and neat, high quality 13MB 3GP file (320:240 version),

i’ve followed the 320:240 size as I wanted this video for my Sony Ericsson K790. For the 176:144 video phones like K750, W700, W800, W810 etc, the size of the compressed 3GP video file will be much smaller.

The end product will look something like this:

I hope you’d love the end product This 3GP video is now worth watching over your cell phone over and over again. Oh and do comment about how you found this post, and of course, how hot do you think Alizee is?