Topic: Video Compression

I am trying to compress some videos that I downloaded. Currently they are rather large .avi, and mpeg files. Some of the ones that I downloaded came in a 14 megs compared to the 75-125 ones that I am trying to shrink.

How would I go about doing this? I think it has something to do with the codec used to encode these files, but I don't know enough about video to be able to work with those.

In this case I just want to be able to fit a few dozen of these onto a CD as opposed to 7-12 that would currently fit. but if someone can direct me to some general information on video editing and reccomend a program for editing in Windows 2000.

This is a good source for video conversion options.

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/convert

Josh Morey

soli deo gloria

This will depend greatly on what program you use to re-save the files.

If your using Premire or Final Cut Pro then it should come with a limited version of the Soensien 3 (sp?) Codec which is great for CD dileviry. Also remember to watch the datarate that you encde for. Set it to about 500 kb or lower per second or it may jump a lot when you play if off of the CD as it won't be able to read the data quick enough. The MPEG4 codek is also worth looking into but I don't use that one much, it tends to make things a little too blury for my tastes.