program to reduce the size of a video file?

[loztheguru]

ive just nabbed a video of my digicam and its over 1gb in size! Its only 18 minutes long!

currently its got a .mov extension and finder informs me uses some form of JPEG codec. aspect ratio is 848x480.

Can anyone recommend a (prefferably free) video convertor or some other way to reduce the size?

 

[imaketouchtheme]

You could try using one of iMovie's codecs. They have really nice ones.

I'm assuming you have iMovie, or you could use Divx Converter.

 

[speakerwizard]

Quicktime pro, visual hub, both greaat for quick encoding.

 

[loztheguru]

visual hub did the trick perfectly, thanks for the replies. now down to a much more acceptable 140mb and 700x400