Good/Simple Video Compression software?

[KingstonU]

I need to compress a 9 minutes video into an e-mail friendly size, like 100mb. current software gives a horrible result, loosing all quality even at 600 MB.

There must be some good / simple video editing software out there today? (unlike 6 years ago when I had to mess around for days and many different codecs etc.. just to get something half decent, took all the fun out of it).

Recommendations? (free is possible) Thanks?

 

[0roo0roo]

handbrake to h264 mkv it..high profile..high settings.
chop it with mkvmerge gui
your post lacks relevant info anyways, even h264 isn't going to do magic

 

[vshah]

i'd use handbrake. for simplicity just start out with a 2 pass encode with a target filesize of 100mb, and see how that goes. what software are you using now?

 

[KingstonU]

Handbrake looks to be working fantastically! Thanks guys!