[odavid350]

anybody here know of a program that reduces the size without hurting the quality of a video i would rather have my movies taking up a couple hundred MB's then GB's

[ReVan]

Are you looking for Apps that use existing codecs or apps that come with their own codecs?

[Eurisko]

Originally Posted by odavid350

anybody here know of a program that reduces the size without hurting the quality of a video i would rather have my movies taking up a couple hundred MB's then GB's

Any compression method hurts video quality. If you want the best quality video while keeping a small size, use iTunes built in converter. Feed the video into iTunes, right-click on it and select "Convert Selection for iPod". You can also use "Convert Selection for iPhone" but again, this will make a larger size video.

[odavid350]

I did the itunes converter and still comes out to be at least a gig i guess i'll have to live with it thanks guys

[Eurisko]

How big and how long is the original movie? A 1.5 hour movie should be no more than 600MB.

[odavid350]

its 2 hours its 1.91 gigs

[coreym@cfl.rr.com]

Have you tried handbreak? you can make custom settings with it. I just use the iPhone setting for all of my videos and dont have any over a gig.

[Eurisko]

Yikes. That's big. Ya, you can use handbrake or VisualHub. Generally, you can make the movie 320x240, H.264, 600K compression, 128Kx44hHz AAC sound.

I've never had a movie over a Gig either.