Compress AVI to smaller avi or wmv

[milkymilk]

i have some footage i want to shorten down to that i captured using my canon s410 digi cam, its about 20 megs, how do I compress it to a smaller size?

 

[dandragonrage]

www.virtualdub.org for the conversion, use XviD (http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml) for the codec

To clean the video up if needed, Google for Vdub filters 2d cleaner optimized (or Smart Smoother). AVISynth is better for filtering but too complex for most people.

 

[milkymilk]

how do you convert avi to wmv

 

[M11]

how do you convert avi to wmv

WM9 does not provide nearly the quality or size reduction of XviD or Quicktime, but is standard. Microsoft makes the encoder available for free.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx