avi and the awsome looking vcds

[JohnnyB]

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

[silver356b]

AVI is just the file format. The size is determined by the codec used.

[JohnnyB]

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?

Thanks-
JB

[JohnnyB]

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