How do you make a video file smaller size?

How to make a video file smaller (or compressed)?

• I have a video i want to upload but it's like 1gb which on my computer will take FOREVER to upload. So im just wondering is their any methods to make the file smaller or compressed more? The file is AVI and is only like 5 minutes, like damn i download blu ray movies sometimes that are 1gb in size (if u got any explanations for that too that would be great. Thxs guys for the answers guys. Even if ur method will only shorten the video file abit everything counts, just post.

• Answer:

  You could compress it to .RAR format, that will drop its size or even split the .RAR file into smaller parts say 20MB each. Of course anyone downloading it will have to UN-RAR it to watch it. There is free software that will make the file smaller but this will require the AVI being re-encoded and always remember the more you compress it the more quality you will lose. Video compression software (free) http://www.xfutureblog.com/2007/09/27/how-to-reduce-or-compress-avi-file-size-and-upload-to-youtube/ http://www.virtualdub.org/ http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Nandub-Download-80471.html