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Good Video Compression tool...

wnied

wnied

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Hey Gang

I have oodles of webcam videos of my sisters newborn baby, each video is about a minute or two long. I wanted to compress these suckers so they werent so large, to make it easier to file transfer to my family up north. Anyone know of a good video compression tool thats easy to use for this purpose?

lmk,
Thanks.
wnied
 
Wnied, I am facing this problem now. I recently purchased a tv tuner/ video capture card and was transferring over a little video tape. The card saves the files in dvi .mp2 format -ARGGHH!

Using .mp2 brought a test file size down from 400mb to about 45mb. I havent been able to find a free editor that will let me edit .mp2 files however. Most only handle .avi and mpg (1) files.

I downloaded a trial version of Ulead VideoStudio v5 ($129 retail), but it seems to have much more features than I need. You can do star fades and other special effects with your video, but after about 1/2 hour of fiddling with it Im becoming a little frustrated.

-AND-

Another issue. I have a p3-700, 512mb and a 7200/100 40gb primary hd. Even with this hardware, it shows a little strain and delay while processing.

New hobbies are always challenging.
 
Real Video Compressor works rather well for reducing size, but, quality is only OK. I think you'd get best bang for buck using .mpg. You can play around with DIVX but it's more complicated to encode with and not everyone has the codec's to decode with it. So, I'd stick with mpg or rm (real).
 
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