SUPER: How to best convert a video to fit X megabytes (ie 1hr to 700 MB)???

I'm having real problem figuring out an easy way to do this.

Basically, I want to convert videos from my digital camera to fit a certain file size using SUPER. I really like SUPER for its speed and flexibility with regarding to handling any file type, but it has some user-friendliness problems.

My most common scenario is converting 1 hr of 640x480 digicam video (from a Canon SD1200), to a file that fits on a regular CD (700MB). Or 2 hrs to 700 MB.

What I do now is blind trial and error, playing around with various output containers, bitrates, etc. Is there any really good settings I should use to optimize the best video quality I can get for this target file size?

I know some other converters does have a friendly feature that lets you input the desired final file size and then does everything itself, but I'd like a little more control and understanding of the process.

 

I assume it outputs Motion Jpeg AVI files.
You can use AutoGK to custom size the output (you put in the size you want, and it makes two passes) or specify a 'Target Quality' setting which is single pass but you cannot control the output size.
Recall that two passes takes longer than a single pass.
Note that you can click 'Advanced Options' to select the audio compression (I usually opt for CBR, MP3 128.