Walkthrough File Size

[STHRevit]

Does anyone have a nice solution to reduce the file sizes for exported walkthroughs?

We would like to be able to e-mail some early design models to the client in a walkthrough or sun study format, however the file sizes are way too large and when we use the Revit compression, the images are ordinary.

Is there a "best practice" or a 3rd party application that can help with that?

[rudolfweyers346383]

If you are working on Windows vista, you can use the windows movie maker. Just import the AVI file and then publish it to a .wmv format which is much smaller than the original AVI file.

[Elmo]

Why not send them the link to Design review and send then a dwf? They then have a full model to look at and wont be able to mess with your file.

[STHRevit]

Thanks guys.
What we have ended up doing is using Adobe to play with the codecs. We can get a 30 sec walkthrough from 600mg down to 8 with minimal effort and we can add titles and effects.

I do like dwf files, but the client just isn't that savy with computers of files like that.

Thanks again.

[amh]

Hello,

We are also currently trying to put together a walkthrough of about that size. Which Adobe product did you use to shrink the file size that much?