How can I compress a large .avi file? Right now it is huge, and won upload or attach.?
If it is an .AVI file that large for a mere 57 seconds of footage… it would have to be the uncompressed form of Windows .AVI file wrapper. AVI is an extension that can represent a variety of Audio/Video Interleaved formats. Windows original form of this “wrapper” was uncompressed and thus the end results were files that are extremely large. Windows Media Video [or .WMV] is similar [also by Microsoft] and if the quality settings are at the high end the result will also be a very large file. There are a number of things that you could actually do to reduce the size of the file. 1. Since .AVI is only a “wrapper” for such formats as AVI, DivX, Xvid, MPEG-4, H-264… etc. any one of these codecs [short for compression/depression] can be used to re-encode the file to a much, much smaller size with little to no discernible loss of quality. 2. Since you are concerned with others being able to open it…
