Sharing videos

I recently discovered that I have Windows Movie Maker on my computer. And in my enthusiasm I immediately went to work making a video using some of my pictures set to music.

Now I'm having problems sharing it. I tried to attach it to my Yahoo mail, but it said I exceeded the limit. Then I tried to upload it to both Photobucket and Youtube so I could share it that way, but both rejected it because the song was copyrighted.

Is there something else I can try? I'm really lame at things like this.

Windows Movie Maker puts your video in wmv format, which is the absolute worse compression format out there. Download Handbrake, then open your wmv in Handbrake. Set Handbrake up to have an output format of MP4 using encoding style H.264. You should get 20x the compression so they should then be small enough to email around. How long is it?

Thanks, Ninja. :) I think I got it taken care of.