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"OK, captured my video, now compression ...."

I captured a 15 second video from RF input, quality is good, saved as standard mpeg the file is 13.0mb, I have tried saving in the few formats available with Pinnacle Trex; best result (without loss of picture quality) is to compress to a mpeg1vcd file - this reduces file size to 2.56mb.

Is there anyway to compress further ? (except by using winzip obviously) or save in a different movie format that will still be good quality but a smaller file size ?

thanks

I should probably mention that the latest build is the "Latest development (unstable) binary" one.

You want to use VirtualDubMod and Koepi's latest build of the XviD codec.

http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
http://roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml

Come back when you've downloaded them.

mpeg 4 reduces it by another 10% down to 2.28meg, think I'll stick with mpeg and just knock out the audio and make the image size slightly smaller, thanks for info.

The ways to reduce file size:
Reduce pixel dimensions
Reduce frame rate
Reduce audio quality (or remove altogether)
Decrease image quality setting in codec
Change to a codec that offers a higher compression (eg: MPEG 4)

Chris.

any ideas ?

I captured a 15 second video from RF input, quality is good, saved as standard mpeg the file is 13.0mb, I have tried saving in the few formats available with Pinnacle Trex; best result (without loss of picture quality) is to compress to a mpeg1vcd file - this reduces file size to 2.56mb.

Is there anyway to compress further ? (except by using winzip obviously) or save in a different movie format that will still be good quality but a smaller file size ?

thanks