store large AVI

[Gondor]

hello all,
i did a capture for a tv talk show about 2.5 hours and the AVI file is large about 20GB the quality is excellent and now i want to save this file some how of smaller size so i can watch it later but sure i don't want to keep it on my HD as i will capture more files i wonder what options i have to compress and burn it ?
thanks a lot

[flaninacupboard]

have a look on the left in the convert section.

at less than 10gigs an hour it's already compressed, guessing you used huffyuv or mjpeg? compressing to another .avi format like divx or xvid will give you large compression values (~1.5 gigs) but lose a lot of picture detail. compressing to mpeg2 at 6 or 7 gigs will be almost indistinguishable from the original, and of course can later be burned to DVD.

[Gondor]

i did not use any compression yet before or after the capture but now i have downloaded a compression tool but it has about 25 codecs, and i don't know which one to use i tried to compress using diffrent codecs like divx or indeo but there is always loss of quality, i wonder which is the best codec which makes good compression without a noticable quality loss.
thanks

[Will Hay]

IMHO, Pic Video MJPEG codec.
Will

[flaninacupboard]

i did not use any compression yet before or after the capture but now i have downloaded a compression tool but it has about 25 codecs, and i don't know which one to use i tried to compress using diffrent codecs like divx or indeo but there is always loss of quality, i wonder which is the best codec which makes good compression without a noticable quality loss.
thanks

Uncompressed full resolution (720x480) is 29 megabytes a second. for 2.5 hours you're looking at 254gigs. even capping in 320x240 it'd be 57gigs. you used some kind of compression, it's probably already MJPEG. please download gspot and post a screen grab of the results.