compressing AVI (lower size) from Canon S50

[nad]

I have a Canon S50 digital camera and I would like to know what you guys think is the best way to compress the digital video it takes.. It makes AVI movies. It can record up to 3 minutes of video and the file sizes are usually 30MB from the camera?

Do any of you guys know the best way to compress or reencode these videos? I want to be able to send them to people easier.

[jggimi]

This is the wrong forum for your question. This forum is for discussing analog capture issues. Your source is DV, so analog capture doesn't apply, and you are asking a fairly general question about possible avi codec use.

A quick glance through your post history shows you were very active in the spring of last year, in forums related to DVD creation (CCE, DVD Authoring, etc.).

I recommend a quick trip through the DV forum. bb has created a very nice FAQ on DV AVI structures and considerations, as well as a fine DV to DVD guide, in case you'd prefer to produce MPEG-2s from the material.

Most of the Doom9 community who produce compressed AVIs for viewing are using one of the popular MPEG-4 codecs, such as DivX, Xvid, WMV9, etc., and use encoding suites such as Gordian Knot, or manual encoders such as VirtualDubMod. Doom9 has guides for some of these, and has also produced very nice mpeg-4 codec comparisons (http://www.doom9.org/codec-comparisons.htm) if you'd like to see what differences there are between some of these codecs. Note that your audience will need to have the appropriate codecs installed on their PCs to be able to view your transcoded AVIs.