.avi file formating,converting,co- and decompressing

[asic86]

do you know a good tool to edit .avi file?i have to co- and decompress very large and medium size files(200~500 Mb and 1,5~4 Gb)

[HeRetiK]

http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/

the compressor is only available as trial version though.

otherwise I'd recommend googling for anything that is able to encode a video file into mp2 or mp4. at university I use the programm Compressor for this, but that's a mac only software, don't know which to recommend for windows though.

The Questions forum is mostly for questions about MINDistortion or the MINDistortion forums btw

[Brandon]

Windows Movie Maker, it should have come with your computers software if you have windows

[ardizt]

Windows Movie Maker, it should have come with your computers software if you have windows

Movie Maker saves video files only in .wmv file format, i recall right

[Brandon]

no, it lets me work with .avi

me and my friends use it to make music videos

[ardizt]

no, it lets me work with .avi

me and my friends use it to make music videos

yes, but can you save your file as .avi?

[HeRetiK]

keep in mind that after you compress a video file you can't decompress it to a regular avi file again... at least not losless.

[Gravesent]

Once compreassed there is no way of bringing it to the original state, there will be loss of quality and it's simply not worth it, movie maker does a good job but if you need to be a little more proffesional but not too much I recomend Sony Vegas Video, the xvid codec does a decent job on compression as well and I understand it's free.

[asic86]

thanky you all for information.i use bink co- and decompressor and some programms my friends and me wrote,but they all are not so good.i googled a lot,but there is nothing that compress very good.my compress should be like 1Gb->200Mb or better.Heretik,now i will ask only about Mindistortion.

[Gravesent]

It depends, what format and degree of compression are the 1gb files, if they are uncompreassed you can bring 10 gb into 100 megs, reducing the bitrate will give you compression that's tons better than what you need the question is how much of the quality you want to compromise.

[Brandon]

no, it lets me work with .avi

me and my friends use it to make music videos

yes, but can you save your file as .avi?

i'm not exactlly sure...