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  1. I decided to make a new post even though it relates to "My recipe for creating awesome-looking VCD's" (http://www.vcdhelp.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=48818&forum=9&15) because there is already a lot of different information and questions and I don't want this one to get confused with the rest.

    OK the question-

    How big is the avi file that is being created? I have a movie ( about 50min and 10gb) which i was trying to conver to avi. Does avi take up more space than mov, less space or about the same?

    thanks
    JB
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    AVI is just the file format. The size is determined by the codec used.
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  3. Im not exactly sure what a codec is. Im using quicktime 5 to encode the movie. Is that what you mean by codec? In which case do you know if quicktime encodes the files bigger than the original movie?

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    JB
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  4. Forget my stupid question- it was easy to find the answer!

    I converted a smaller mov file to avi and i see it takes up the same amount of space!

    JB
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