Video Format and settings
 

I have been downloading AVI files that are around 350MB for an 50 Minute show. When I create a AVI file, I end up with a 1 to 3GB file. Is there a general setting to create a file and keep the quality or a Codec I should use? I want to share some of my files if I can get them to this 350MB file size for people to download.

Why not share them as they are? Reconverting them will only result in loss of quality.

I would except I have been impressed with the images I see at 350MB and the download times would load up my system. I prefer to try and compress. If the videos were high definition, I would not bat an eye.

Videos ... like music & pictures ... re-saving into lossy formats means loss of quality enjoyment. It's like taking a digital photo, saving it as a quality 3 or 4 JPG. Then opening that JPG file & saving it at the same quality setting. Open it & look at the image & tell us how it compares to the original. You'd find artifacts introduced into the image, blurring, loss of clarity of original colours, loss of definition, etc. :D The same applies if you save an mp3 as another mp3. The loss of course for music is the audio attributes such as colour, frequency range & balance, etc. - Like taking a cheap b/w photocopy lol :D Just IMHO

BTW some people share movies as 2 or 3 x 600 to 800 MB files.