To apply a Destination, drag the “Create DVD” destination on top of the job. The benefit of Destinations is that they compress and burn a single movie to a disc with one setting. A Destination combines both a compression setting and a job action that does something with the file once compression is complete. In this screen shot, the Create DVD destination is highlighted. If you are authoring a disc to contain multiple movies, menus, scripts, stories in either DVD Studio Pro or Adobe Encore, then you need to compress your media in Compressor.Ī new feature in Compressor 4.1 is Destinations.If you are burning a single movie to a disc, you can do that in either Final Cut Pro X or Compressor.If you are using iDVD to burn movies to a disc, you don’t need to compress them in Compressor.WHEN SHOULD YOU COMPRESS FILES FOR A DVD? (The HD-DVD format listed in DVD Studio Pro is a dead format that can only be played on a Macintosh, and nothing else.) If you need to burn HD media onto an optical disc, you need to create a Blu-ray, or AVCHD Disc. Compressing HD media for a DVD always converts it to standard-def. NOTE: DVDs are always and only standard-definition video. This article explains what you need to know using both Compressor 4.1 and Compressor 4.0.

I’ve covered this a lot in my video training, but haven’t written about this for several years. Playback the video to see if everything is good and download it back to your device or to cloud storage.One of the most common compression questions I get is how to compress files for a DVD. Now you can see how well your AVI is compressed - the tool shows the previous and actual size to compare, and the percentage. We are doing our best to compress your file as much as possible without losing quality. The process usually does not take long but it all depends on the initial file size. Note that the tool works not only with AVI but also with all the modern formats. By pressing the downward arrow you can select a video from Google Drive or Dropbox. How to compress AVI filesįirst things first, choose a video you want to compress from any of your devices: Mac, Windows, iPhone or Android. You can compress a video to smaller size up to 500 MB for free, there is no limit on the number of videos. The AVI Video Compressor by Clideo is an online tool which means no software downloads and no installations are required! It not only makes the whole process faster but also more secure. If you have an AVI file and you want to send it via email or share it on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or another social media, then you need to compress it first as all the web services have a size limit. It uses less compression to store files which is why an AVI video is usually larger than the same video in other similar format like MOV. AVI is a video format developed by Microsoft.

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