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FL70
08-14-2011, 02:09 PM
We've got a bunch of stuff on MiniDV tapes and the Mrs asked me to get it to the PC.

So I bought a firewire cable and moved the video to .avi files using Windows Live Movie Maker. The problem is they're effing enormous - a 12 minute video is over 2˝GB.

I tried opening the .avi in WLMM and saving as .wmv, but that doesn't really compress a whole lot. I watched a few YouTube tutorials, but no where in my process does it ask me what size to make the .wmv file.

Any help?

Quads
08-14-2011, 02:15 PM
HandBrake or Super
Search videohelp.com for tutorials on each. Handbrake is more popular these days, and rightfully so.