How to compress movies?

Many of you are faced with a situation wheretwenty-minute video file takes about 10 gigabytes. It can be written to disk, in order to free up space on the computer. And what do you do when you have 5 or 10 such files? The output is one: these video files need to be reduced in volume. How to compress a movie? One of the easiest and most accessible tools is the VirtualDub program, which allows you to compress movies without quality loss. Also it can be used for cutting out avi - video files, editing and editing the video stream.

How to squeeze a movie: an instruction

1. Download the program VirtualDub. This is not difficult, since this program is completely free. In addition, it has a Russified interface.
2. Install the program on your computer.
3. Run the program and open it in yourvideo file. The first frame of your video will be opened in the program window. The soundtrack can be left unchanged, so select Audio and press Direct stream copy.
4. Click the Video button and select Full Processing mode.
5. Choose a DivX codec that allows you to compressmovies without losing quality indicators. In addition, movies compressed with this codec can be viewed not only on the computer, but also on a regular DVD player. If you do not have this codec, download it in addition.
6. Press Video again and select Compression. A list of codecs will appear and among the suggested options select DivX Pro 5.0.3 Codec. And click Configure.
7. After that you will have a window with settingscodec, select Profile and tick the Use Bidirectional Encode check box. And in the General Parameters tab, set all sliders to Normal.
8. On the Bitrate Parameters tab, select Multipass, 1^st pass. After that, we set the bitrate parameters: the higher it is, the better the video quality. All other parameters remain unchanged. In the end, click OK.
9. Now proceed directly to compressionvideo file. Go to the File menu, and then select Save as AVI. As a result, you get a small file (it's not your video file), which needs to be converted to video format. To do this, select Multipass, nth pass again in the Bitrates Parameters tab. Press the OK button twice and save the video in AVI format. Thus, the video file will decrease several times.
10. This video processing allows you to compress it without changing the quality, just by resizing.

After going through all the main stages of the work, you will be able to compress the film several times and the quality will remain the same as it was at the source. The soundtrack remains unchanged.