compressing avi files without losing quality?
 

I have a bunch of videos from my canon powershot but the files are so huge, are there any free programs out there that will compress them without losing video/sound quality?

hummm... doesn't the term 'compression' implicitly imply quality loss?

you would think so but my camcorder makes even better quality videos at a much smaller size, so..

it's about the capture then, the quality of the cmos and what is 'gathered' not the size of the file. the powershot pulls lot's off low quailty data.

...and the codec used for compression.

hmm, right. well i don't know. i am just trying to upload a video to youtube thats like 700 megs for 6 minutes. its kinda retarded.

I had thought youtube has compression built into the upload software??

You could try crush it down by re-encoding in Handbrake. Or pull it into Final Cut and edit it down.

Use WMV.

That's all I have to say about this.

im sure it gets compressed on their side but in the meantime i have to upload 700megs. the upload on my isp is pretty slow as it is but uploading to youtube is brutal.

I believe the compression is only done server side.

youtube needs to make it so you can resume your uploads. it always fails part way through on the big files for me.

encode it to a high bit rate mp4.

that's like saying: yeah just drive the Ferrari over to 7-11 to pick up the beer :2 cents:

free software to compress to avi? i thot everyone knows www.virtualdub.org ?? i think the last AVI i created in hi-q was made with codec VP7 ;) didnt work with VDUB in a long time now that HD WMV is standard :P or use WVC9 or WME9 with WMV10/WMA3 it was called i think lol :D