TV news coverage

The local TV news called me last week to interview me...and my car! It was about the Consumer Reports satsifaction survey with 94% Prius owners saying they would buy one again, etc.
I did about 15 minutes of interview in front of my car and then about 10 minutes of me driving with the camera person in the back filming. Of course the actual on-screen time for me was about 20 seconds with just a couple of soundbites: "It's just a kick to drive". It was cool, though.
Plus I'd just completed some one-year anniversary number crunching and got quoted with "I've saved over 1,000 gallons of fuel over my old SUV in the 1st year alone." She also mentioned my hybrid car club I've formed, which was nice.
The dealer was interviewed and got a really nice quote about the lower emissions: 'The Prius at 60 MPH puts out fewer emissions than a '72 Buick does just sitting in the garage.'
The reporter did a major disservice by stating the Prius is hard to get with only a dozen in the whole US. Yeah. Nice figure. I called them to complain, but only got a machine. I'm unsure if they corrected that major blunder. I didn't even talk about my wait time (3 months). Anyway...

I'm going to get the footage transferred from VHS to a format to post (MPEG?, AVI?), just not sure where to post this. Any advice out there? Thanks for allowing me to toot my own horn!

 

Yes, but, all autographs aside, now I need help in posting this news story. I have it in .mpg format (from VCR to my capture card) and it plays in windows media player ok. It's 40 MB. How to post it/link it? I'm not at all familiar with doing this sort of thing. Pictures, yes. video, no. Any help out there?

 

yep, that'd be my next question: where to 'host'? I'm a computer geek but not really a web/internet geek...yet! Any help in the 'hosting' thing would be great. Thanks.

 

Okay, I've the footage in .mpg format on my machine. Danny, just need help in hosting it, if you can. I realize you're a busy person, so when u get a chance , let me know how to go about it. Thanks again!

 

Okay, I'll work on the VirtualDub thing and make an AVI. Does that seem to be the thing to do for a .mpg clip that is going on the web? I'll be honest, if I screw around enough I can figure most anything out, yet, if I can get advice to head me in the right direction, then all the better! Thanks, I'm on it to convert to AVI...

...and after it's in AVI format? send you the file? You then 'upload' to your site?

 

Okay, so the weekend did not produce anything smaller than 40 MB for my news story. Tried VirtualDub, as well as an mpeg-to-avi converter program. I must not be doing the compression thing right?? So, I'll try to send the 40 MB .mpg file if that's all right. Not sure if my work email will handle that big of an attachment. Or the login thing to your website? Would that be a better way to go? Let me know what you think. This is hard work to showoff!

 

Well, I still need a place to post my .mpg file. Engunneer, I tried to send the file via gmail, but it's too big. All the .avi files I've tried to make are bigger than the 40 MB .mpg original. I'm not smart enough to make the windows media encoder work. Besides which I completely dislike media player. So...any other ideas? What's the login for your webpage, Engunneer? How does that work? Thanks for all the advice so far...I'm determined to get published here, ha, ha!

 

Thanks, Dave, I did split the .mpg file into 5 files of 8 MB each and sent each of them to engunneer thru the newly formed gmail.com (10 MB max on attachments, 1 GB storage!). Hopefully they all went thru and he can work with them. Although the previous "test" e-mails I've sent to him thru gmail.com have not been answered. Not sure if he's around or busy or ? l'll see what next week brings...