You can use Video Resizer to recompress video files to a
fraction of their original size.
Video Resizer makes it easy to email video clips taken
with your digital camera. Simply right click the video files you wish
to reduce in size and click compress.
I have designed Video Resizer to work the same
way as Microsoft's Image Resizer Powertoy utility. Even novice users find
Microsoft's utility simple to use. Images can be resized right in
Windows Explorer with a few clicks. I have created Video Resizer so that
video files can be recompressed just as easily.
Video Resizer can compress .avi and .mpeg files. The
recompressed video files are saved in Windows Media .wmv format.
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Video Resizer is free and is released under the MIT
license:
Copyright (c) 2004-2008 S. Simon
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom
the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
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THE SOFTWARE.
Video Resizer requires Windows XP or Windows Vista.
Playing back recompressed video files requires Windows
Media Player version 6.4 or above.
- Video Resizer uses the Windows Media Encoder 9
engine to recompress video files. To install Windows
Media Encoder:
- Goto http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia
- Click on Downloads
- Select Windows Media Encoder from the first drop
down list
- Select Windows Media 9 Encoder Series from the
second drop down list
- Click on Download
- Choose Open in the download dialog window
- Follow the on screen instructions to install
Windows Media Encoder 9
- Windows Vista requires an update to Windows Media Encoder. Goto http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929182 Download
and install the update.
- Download and install Video Resizer
- Click here to download Video Resizer
- Choose Open in the download dialog window
- Double click on the VideoResizerSetup.exe file.
- Follow the on screen instructions to install Video
Resizer
Right click the video file you wish to compress. Choose:
- Smallest Size
- Produces the smallest files possible.
Allows you to email videos up to a minute in length.
- Medium Quality
- This option is recommended for videos
up to 20 seconds long. A 20 second video clip will compress to about 500 Kbytes.
- High Quality
- Recommended for higher resolution videos. The video
file produced by this option may be too large for email.
