Convert AVI to a smaller format

rjohns75

Newbie Joined: Mar 23, 2013 18:27 Messages: 22 Offline

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May 07, 2016 16:33

I digitized my minidv disks using a previous version of Power Director. The files were saved as avi but now they are taking up too much space on my hard drive. Is there another format I can convert to without losing too much quality? The info for one of the files is below.

FFormat : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

Commercial name : DVCPRO

Format profile : OpenDML

File size : 3.80 GiB

Duration : 18mn 11s

Overall bit rate mode : Constant

Overall bit rate : 29.9 Mbps

Robert

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 07, 2016 21:25

Quote: I digitized my minidv disks using a previous version of Power Director. The files were saved as avi but now they are taking up too much space on my hard drive. Is there another format I can convert to without losing too much quality? The info for one of the files is below.

FFormat : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

Commercial name : DVCPRO

Format profile : OpenDML

File size : 3.80 GiB

Duration : 18mn 11s

Overall bit rate mode : Constant

Overall bit rate : 29.9 Mbps

Robert

Try converting them to MPEG-2 @ 8 Mbps and above if they are 720x480/576 NTSC/PAL. If they as higher resolution, then AVC MP4 @ 16-28 Mbps would work better.

You can always store the AVI original files on external hard drives. There are External hard drives up to 6 TB (TeraBytes).

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rjohns75

Newbie Joined: Mar 23, 2013 18:27 Messages: 22 Offline

May 07, 2016 21:27

Thanks.

Robert