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Reviewing the rules for file formats when saving your movie

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Reviewing the rules for file formats when saving your movie

- [Instructor] So, if we wanted to save that animation of the crane toy and distribute it on Twitter to sell the toy to parents and grandparents and family members, what file format would be the best file format to distribute it on Twitter? Remember, SOLIDWORKS will automatically save to an AVI file and if we wanted to save to any of these other file formats, we'd need to use some kind of film editing software. Keep in mind the Twitter specifications for the video format. It must meet all of the following criteria. It's gotta be between a half a second and 30 seconds long and since our video is under 30 seconds we're good. File size should not exceed 15 megabytes. Dimensions should be 32 and 32 and 1280 by 1024. Aspect ratio should be between 1:3 to 3:1 and the frame rate should be 40 frames per second or less which we are by definition so we're in good shape for the video. We can save it as an AVI file and then use a third-party software to convert it to an MPG file and then it would…

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