Compress AVI to DivX or XviD

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  1. samus250

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    I made a home movie, and used iMovie on a mac without dvd burner to edit it. I wanted to pass it to a DVD, so I just passed the video from iMovie to the camera, and from the camera to mi PC with Adobe Premiere. I burned the dvd nicely, extremely good quality, but I want to make an avi file to share over the internet.

    It all sums up that I have an avi file, extreme uncompressed quality that plays fine on Windows Media Player, but it takes 4.4GB and its only 21 minutes long. I have searched for DivX, but it seems that the DivX converter is not free. Is there any way I can compress this video to DivX or XviD with free software? Thanks a lot.
     
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    All you need to do is download the divx codec, it is free.
    http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/

    Once you get it installed, use something like Virtualdub
    to recompress using DivX.

     
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    So in virtualdub, I just File->Open the video and set up the codec, then File->Save as AVI?

    Thanks.
     
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    Yes,
    video/compression (choose divx and set your required bitrate)
    You could also choose video/fast recompress, but it's not important.
    File / save as avi
     
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    Ok I compressed the video, everything turned out well. But... how do I compress the audio??? The audio bitrate is still insanely high, and for some reason I can't select the audio compression codec in virtual dub.

    Thanks.
     
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    Are you looking for mp3 audio?
    You didn't really say. If so, the best bet is LAME ACM, which once
    installed, can be selected in virtualdub.

    Choose audio/full processing
    audio/conversion (only if you need to)
    audio/lame mp3 (choose your settings)
     
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    Thank you very much, I already have LAME installed, the only problem was that I didn't select audio/full processing.

    I'll let you know how it turns out. Thank you very much!!!!
     
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    Down from 4.44GB to 150MB and good quality. Thanks!
     
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