Compressing AVI files

[kj16v]

I've been playing around with some video editing software and I'm trying to compress a video. The video is only 48 secs long but it's 56MB.

I've never used video editing software so I'm just trying out different things to see what happens. I tried reducing the quality to 10% but it didn't make much difference tp the quality or the file size.

Anyone know how it all works?

[FATBOY]

has it got to be an AVI file at the end of the day? you could convert to a different format but obviously you would lose some of the quality

[kj16v]

Doesn't have to be AVI. Are other formats like MPEG smaller?

[1fast6]

There are plenty of freeware video converters about. Google for em.

MPEG is slightly worse quality because it uses a codec to compress the video file down. But the result is the MPEG file will be much smaller.

[Lunner]

Windows movie maker thingy makes them smaller

Ones i took off my cam were HUGE, edited them through that and saved them and they ended up being a sensible size

[u33db]

Download and install the divx/xvid codec then re-encode it using this.

It'll allow you to keep the avi extension/quality and will srop the size right down.

[kj16v]

Cheers all

[titcharoony]

I'm mate I wrk in graphics n post prod pm me If u need tips

[Purple]

Try this freeware.

http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/