AVI Shortening

[Evan7]

Any way to shorten a Avi cuz i need to take some space of it so i can burn it onto a dvd~ please?

[Evan7]

Nevermind i didint go to How to and ima use virtual dub thnx tho = D

[Forum Troll]

Is it a DV or uncompressed AVI? You could split it into chunks with Virtualdub, or use winzip or winrar to create pieces you ran rejoin later.

[Evan7]

Nvm Virutal Dub isnt what im looking for.. I have two avi files i want make smaller. so i can put them onto a dvd-r.. so how do i edit them each to make them smaller?

[guns1inger]

How big are they ?
Do you want to edit them, or just shrink them ?
Virtualdub is what you need to either, but how depends on what you want to achieve.

[kschang]

As Evan7 said, he wants to shrink them enough to fit on DVD-R's... However, that answer is quite vague.

Does Evan7 mean a DVD-R viewable on a Standalone player, i.e. regular "video DVD", or does he mean a data DVD? I'm guessing the former, in which case he's in the wrong forum. Since, shrinking AVI is rather pointless, since you have to transcode to MPEG2 to make a video DVD any way. So making the AVI smaller would not really affect the MPEG2 size much.

[mikiem]

FWIW, trivia I guess, I've seen & heard of very few extreme cases where the video's just barely too long, even after cutting, to fit at a decent compression level. Doing time compression (like in an adapted for TV movie), if just for selected scenes can help.

[Evan7]

I wanna shrink yes.. im am putting on a data dvd-r.. i am doing it becuz of space on my harddrive and so i can watch them later on.. i have my computer networked to anothr computer i my room and that computer is hooked up to a big screen t.v in my room through s-video. so i watch movies through that and tv etc.. so i need to shrink this for later on events please >= \ the two avi's are

Part 1.avi 699 MB (734,623,744 bytes)
Part 2.avi 700 MB (734,623,744 bytes)
The Dukes of Hazzard.iso 3.37 GB (3,618,734,080 bytes)


I need yo fit all of this onto a DVD-R so i figured i could remove the credits on the avi's mabe or somthing
Now is that the information you were looking for?

= D

[guns1inger]

Virtualdub. Direct Stream Copy. Set the markers to the start and finsih point of the section you want to keep, and write this out to your HDD.