Video compression?

[XprincoX]

Does anyone know a more effective way to compress a video? As im making some gifs outta some videos and am getting some rather large file sizes... Otherwise, i have to lower the resolution waaay low.

hehe my avatar is one of my first attempts. :D

[Blackearth]

what compression codec are you using currently?

[XprincoX]

its from an avi, and sometimes i use mpeg too...

[Blackearth]

if you really want to compress a movie file d/l virtual dub and the latest divx codec. use the divx MPEG-4 fast motion codec to process it, it does a really good job without sacrificing too much visual quality. once you get good w/ the filters you can knock off about 1/3 at least with out being able to hardly tell the difference between the two.

[XprincoX]

yea the divx codec compresses it very nicely, but the problem is im converting clips into gifs. Therefore i need to optimize clips as much as possible while minimizing desortions. :D

[Ottoman]

like my avatar? or better?

mine started at 110mb, now it's 170 kb...
full color version is 240 kb

u hafta know how to 'omit' things as well

[drunkmonkey]

I like the VCD format, I use it whenever I make a video.