How do I compress/zip video files

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denodigital

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was able to burn my footage on a CD-R as an “.avi” file and take it to my other computer, which is hooked up to the Internet, and play it in Windows Media Player;
I saved the file to my hard drive, then tried to attach it to an E-mail and send, but it took forever for Yahoo to attach the file to my E-mail; its a 6 minute, 14 seconds movie with sound; the file size is 62.4 mb, which, according to other video clips I’ve seen (and have saved), is too large;

there is this one movie/video clip that is about the same length as mine, but when I looked at it’s properties, it’s only 2.6 mb; how do they compress/zip those files down to that size; many videos that are either on sites that host them or are ones that someone send me are small files, but some are 10 minutes long; when I check them out, it does not take long for them to upload and play; what do I need to do to get the same results?

Also, I could not use my DVD's to burn the file; I kept getting an error message that said the DVD was not empty, and that it was not a writable DVD, which is was empty and a DVD-R RW; when I put in a CD-R, it worked. Hummm....

brw459@yahoo.com

Thanks.
 
Most people use a compression program like Sorenson Squeeze to get file sizes down while maintaining quality. Check into it.
 
You can take the AVI and transcode it to WM9 format in Vegas. But 6 minutes is pretty long to get to an e-mailable size while still retaining quality.

Try going to 320x240 at about 83% quality.
 
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