File Size question

[Solace]

I hope this is the right forum, wasnt sure between this one and authoring. I recently captured a 20 minute piece of video (VHS to ADVC-100 - to Premiere pro). Premiere seems to capture in DV AVI format, so after capturing a 20 minute piece of video, I have a 4.5 Gig file. I want to convert it to a regular avi file so I can get the file size down to a hundred or so megs. I havent seen any posts or tutorials about this so I hope Im not repeating something. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

[Vejita-sama]

DV files are compressed, normal AVI files are uncompressed. So your 4.5GB DV file would be about 7-10x bigger as a normal avi. I suspect that you want to convert it to a DivX file (which uses the *.avi extension).

Divx is a MPEG4 codec (other MPEG4 codecs include xvid and wmv). There are guides to the left (under convert) for how to convert to divx, there are also guides at doom9.org

1) But basically d/load and install the codec
2) D/load and install Virtual Dub (or Nandub)
3) Load the source file
4) Choose save as avi, select the divx codec, set desired bitrate (ie. final size)
5) Convert

[Solace]

Thanks for your reply Vejita. I have the divx codec installed but when I try to open with Virtuldub I get this error message "Virtualdub requires a Video for windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. Directshow codecs, such as those used by windows media player, are not suitable."

So I then opened it up with Gspot and found that I have the necessary codecs to play the file but, Gspot told me that my AVI file was invalid due to a corruption of the data in the header, and that the file is not playable. However, I can open and play the file in windows media player. Is this a lost couse?
Screenshot of gpot results attached.

[bugster]

To open your DV video in virtualdub you need to install the panasonic DV codec.