making a video file smaller

[brimeis]

Hi

I have an MPG that I capped with my dazzle card...it is about 700 mb. The quality is good but now I would like to send this video to somebody else. I am very much a noob when it comes to things like this and I really don't know what I should do to make it smaller without recapping the video which is not an option.

Does anybody have any suggestions on what I should do so this file is much smaller so I can send it easier?

[ZippyP.]

How many minutes is your clip and how small would you like to make it? Keep in mind that the smaller it gets the quality decreases.

[brimeis]

The video clip is about 20 min -

I guess I would probably like to make it somewhere between 150 and 200 mb...which I think is reasonable but really I have no idea -

thanks for the assistance!

[lantern]

Microsoft Windows Media Encoder does a pretty good job for compressing and just about everyone can play the files without any problems.

[junkmalle]

Since you have WinXp you can just use Windows Movie Maker.