Used Xfire. It's in AVI format and the size is 89.2 GB. I need to convert it to WMV and compress it to 2 GB or less. Does anyone know how? This is really annoying.

Any help? I also forgot to add that I don't want to use quality. Please somebody help, this is very important to me.

VirtualDub is free and pretty good too. It will convert and do minor edits; provided you have the codecs installed.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/files/virtualdub-win/1.9.10.32839/VirtualDub-1.9.10.zip/download

Does it do what I ask for?

If you mean tell it to auto-reduce to 2GB probobly not, but if you mean can it be done with it(?), then yes. Its really a feature of the codecs you choose and how you configure them.

The first link in my SIG was made the other night and resized, cropped, and compressed using VirtualDub. It was an 8GB file, it ended up a 99MB file.

Hmm, I'll try and see if it works. Thanks if it works. If it doesn't, well...thanks for trying.

:thumbsup:

I've never seriously used it before, but Windows Moviemaker does seem to export as a DV avi, and offered to compress my 8GB file down to an estimated 655MB.
(Its compressing it now. I will know the quality when its done. I prefer VirtualDub, but this you have, and its also free.)

edit:
**Its done and it resulted in a 567 MB file that was pretty decent quality.

It says the main movi block is missing. Any idea what that means?

Moviemaker you mean? I dunno really. I've had problems with non-standard AVI files before from various capture & editing programs. Sometimes Nero would make files that VirtualDub choked on.

Can you play the file in more than one app?

No, in VirtualDub. I can only play it in the the window I get after the Xfire is finished (which I still left opened for that reason). If I try to load it in Movie Maker it won't because I think it's because it's AVI or because it's just so huge. It won't load in Media Center, only through the Xfire window will it.

This may be the fault of Xfire. :shrug:
Have you used it much for other clips?
(I have never heard of it myself ~but that's no surprise; I know of many capture programs.)

**But if you can only play it in Xfire... that's pretty bad.

Media player won't play it? (what about Quicktime?)
If not, then I'd say you have a damaged AVI file. (even if only just)

In Quicktime it says, "Error -50: an unknown error occurred (backflip.avi)"

I really don't know then. If you cannot play it in anything besides Xfire, then something is wrong with it, or its deliberate. :shrug:
(or perhaps its a codec problem)

If it were me I would burn the video to a disc and try it on another PC; but since its so big ~you can't
(unless you have an external hard drive or a LAN linked shared folder... Then you could).

This svcks...

A better option on Windows is Staxrip - which will convert the video using x264 to create an h.264 compatible format (MP4 or MKV file preferred). With x264, a CRF of 20 will be crystal clear and a CRF of 24 will be nearly perfect but take up a lot less space. (You can generally go with anything from 18-26, lower is higher quality but larger file size, higher is lower quality but much reduced file size. I generally use CRF 22.)

Personally, I use FRAPS, move the raw AVIs up to my Linux server and use a batch script with ffmpeg/x264 to convert (the script stitches together the individual AVI files into one continuous output). I also resize down to 720p (1280x720), which is still big enough to see all the details but doesn't need as high of a bitrate to keep things looking nice.

Frankly, Windows tends to svck for video editing because it's too easy to mess up your codec tables. I've had months where Staxrip would work perfectly, then it would suddenly stop working because I changed something minor with the system.

(I used to archive in XVid format, but have completely switched over to x264. I always found XVid to be a bit blurry.)