How to convert Digital Cam AVI to Xvid or Divx?

[Newbie_here]

I would like to make some backup of some home video into smaller size. How do I accomplish this?

Thanks

[Chris K]

I would like to make some backup of some home video into smaller size. How do I accomplish this?

Thanks

You post your question in DVD authoring and that's probably your final goal but you have to first convert your AVI's to a suitable DVD format.
Your sources are interlaced (unless you use a progressive scan camera), probably 30 fps and that makes it a bit more complicated. There are different ways to handle interlaced sources and I advice to read posts at the "conversion" forums about this subject.

[redwudz]

You would need to give us more information to start with. What kind of AVI do you have? From a camcorder or a video from a still camera. What format? DV-AVI?

If DV, you might try VirtualDub, the Panasonic DV Codec to open the video, and the Xvid codec to encode. VD has many guides available on it's 'Tool page'.

[Baldrick]

AutoGK.

[Newbie_here]

Thanks for the replies so far. Yes, I will be using the format DV Avi or dvd mpeg 2 so I would like to be able to convert them to Xvid and/or Divx.