Many experienced computer users still remember the time when the very possibility of creating their own home archive with video was considered a miracle. In those years, tapes were widely used, and hard drives had "stunning" volumes of a couple of hundred megabytes.
Since then, much has changed, but there are still situations where your home video or movie is so large that it takes up a lot of disk space. But
how to reduce video size without losing quality? Is it really possible to do this?
Some information
Just note that to encode a video in some more compact format, without sacrificing any characteristics of the film, is hardly realistic. But there are pleasant exceptions.
So, if you have a movie "shot" from a VHS tape (via a TV tuner, for example) on your computer a hundred or two gigabytes, then banal avi-video will probably not ruin it, but it will save a lot of space.
How to encode?
Once again, we can be relieved to think that we are not living in those times when rare and not very high-quality programs reached the users of our country on scratched, signed by hand CD-ROMs.
Often those applications did not work at all, and if they functioned, they did not have a Russian-language interface. Now their choice is much wider.
Before reducing the size of the video without losing quality, we mention those programs that are most convenient for doing this. The first is Nero Recode. The product from a well-known German company is distinguished by an enviable quality and user-friendly interface.
Of the minuses - the high cost and requirements for computer resources. But how to reduce the size of the video without losing quality without putting out tons of money to buy programs?
Free options
The utility Any Video Converter is very well known and distributed among our users. It is lightweight, free and extremely functional. In contrast, the competing MediaCoder is as cumbersome as its competitor. But in its arsenal there are so many “lotions” that in its functionality it is no worse than many paid analogues.
So how to reduce video size without losing quality?
General principles of work
In the framework of this article, it is simply impossible to fit all the principles of working with at least one program. For example, we’ll show you how to encode a movie using the Any Video Converter utility mentioned above.
After launching it, in the upper left corner find the “Video Clips +” icon. After clicking, show the program on which hard drive the file to be transcoded is located. For the same purpose, you can simply drag the desired clip directly to the center of the window, in the field specially designed for this. After that, you need to click on the button with the image of a wrench.
In the dialog box that opens, you can configure the type of output file you need. What to convert to? MKV is a popular and extremely high-quality format that is becoming more common every day. By clicking on the “Confirm” button, you will exit to the initial dialog box where you will need to activate the “Convert all files now” option.
After waiting some time, which will depend on the characteristics of your computer, you will get compressed video output.