Ok. I captured a movie from my analog camcorder in avi format.
It was fairly clear (shot at night). However, it was 1.18gig.

So I used Avi2Vcd to compress it to MPEG1. Now the size was only 50.5mb.

But the quality suffered. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to compress without losing this amount of quality?

FYI: I tried TMPEG and Panasonic Encoder with similar problems.
Could all my problems come from the analog crappy camcorder I'm using?

Thanks a mil fellows.