How do I Resize video without cutting it

[amonales]

I am still a rookie in converting videos. That's why i'm looking for a little help. I don't understand why some people save *.avi(s)
that are larger than 800 Mb beacuse that prevents me from burning them on a CD with 700 Mb capacity.
I have a XviD movie 741Mb big. I tryed to convert it to a small size with virtual dub. I got the size of 380Mb at the end but the quality was terrible.
Is there software where I can simply say: "I want to turn this 741MB video file into a 700Mb one, and the software does all the settings for optimal quality of the desired video.
People preffer using virtual dub for those kind of things but I don't know how to handle it probably. How can I determine the codecs (I've been trying to use bitrate calculators aso.) but it's very hard to start from scratch.
If somebody has a little bit of spare time plz explain how can i convert video's to my diserable size without too much trouble (i don't care if it's VirtualDub or some other software)

Thx

[anonymez]

usually the best way is to reduce the bitrate of the audio through virtualdub... assuming it is mp3 audio, do not go lower than 96kbps... if that is not enough, try cutting out the end/opening credits if there are any. try compressing it with winRAR if it ends up only a few meg larger than a CD, and as an absolute last resort, you should re-encode the movie at a lower video bitrate (determined by your bitrate calculator).
All this can be done with virtualdub, and guides that will help you in these tasks can be found at www.doom9.org

good luck

[Soulhunter]

Filesize:

You see this target size box in XviD's 2Pass (2nd Pass) menu...

Size must be entered in KB there !!!

1 MB = 1024 KB

So, 700 MB = 716800 KB !!!

But you have to substract the audio size from this...


Bye