Tips on how to reduce video size without loss of quality

Many experienced computer users still remember the time when the very possibility of creating their home video archive was considered a miracle. In those years, cassettes were widely used, and hard drives had "amazing" volumes of a couple of hundred megabytes.

Since then, a lot has changed, but there are still situations when your home video or movie is so big that it takes up a lot of disk space. But how to reduce the size of video without losing quality? Is it realistic to do this?

Some information

At once we will notice that it is hardly realistic to encode a video into some more compact format without sacrificing any characteristics of the film. But there are also pleasant exceptions.

So, if you have a hundred or two gigabytes of video on your computer, it's taken from a VHS cassette (via a TV tuner, for example), then a banal avi video will probably not spoil it, but it will save a lot of space.

Than to encode?

Once again, it's a relief to think that we do not live at the time when rare and not very high-quality programs reached the users of our country with scratched, hand-signed CDs.

Often those applications did not work at all, and if they did, they did not have a Russian interface. Now their choice is much wider.

Before you reduce the size of the video without losing quality, we mention the programs that do it most conveniently. First, this is Nero Recode. The product from the well-known German company differs in enviable quality and convenient interface.

Of the minuses - high cost and requirements for computer resources. But how to reduce the size of video without losing quality, without laying out tons of money to buy programs?

Free options

Very well known and common among our users is the utility Any Video Converter. It is lightweight, free and extremely functional. On the contrary, the competing program MediaCoder is as cumbersome as its competitor is. But in its arsenal there are so many "gadgets" that its functionality is no worse than many paid counterparts.

So how to reduce video size without losing quality?

General principles of work

Within the framework of this article, it is simply impossible to fit all the principles of work with at least one program. For example, let's talk about how to encode a movie using the above mentioned Any Video Converter utility.

After launching it, in the top left corner, find the "Video Clips +" icon. Clicking, show the program on which hard disk is the file that should be recoded. For the same purpose, you can simply drag the desired clip directly into the center of the window, in a specially designed field. After that, press the button with the wrench.

In the dialog box that opens, you can configure the output file type you need. What to convert? MKV is a popular and extremely high-quality format, which is becoming more common every day. Clicking the "Confirm" button, you will go to the initial dialog box where you will need to activate the "Convert all files now" item.

After waiting for some time, which will depend on the characteristics of your computer, you will receive compressed video at the output.