what is the best compression tools for videos?

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Sorenson Squeeze works quite well…

Laszlo
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[Erik Pontius]

You might also investigate using WMV’s instead of AVI’s.
AVI itself is just a container, it can hold video encoded in any number of different codecs (divx, video for windows, Huffy, etc…). What codec you use can have a dramatic difference on the size and quality of your video. It can also be a headache if whoever you send the video to doesn’t have the same codec to play (decode) the video.

Erik

[Alanlastufka]

http://www.youtube.com

Seriously, no codecs to worry about, and honestly, if people were emailing me video clips and clogging up my inbox with those, I’d block them pretty quickly. Links are very very tiny, and videos can be set to friends- or family-only so they’re not shared publicly.

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I use Squeeze. I don;t like YouTube becasue no matter what you use, it compresses it into the Flash 7 codec, and therefore compresses your stuff twice. That;s wht stuff looks so bad on You Tube.

If you are only compressing to Flash (which is your best way to reach the most people), consider the cheeper alternative: On2 Flix.

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[Alanlastufka]

I agree and I’ve actually emailed them about it twice, going as far as suggesting paid accounts for higher res uploads. But the poster said they just want to share home videos with family… Uncle Bob isn’t going to mind Flash video compression.

I’d suggest different if the poster were sending the final video to a client or something. =)