Hey, Somewhat of a newbie here. ^^;;

I have a question. I recently found myself in posession of some DV files, that need to be hosted online. I would like to convert them into something a bit more recognizable, like .avi, and also to lower the size, and quality, making it feasable to download these suckers.

Are there any trial - freeware / shareware apps out there that can help me do this without plastering an 'unregistered' watermark all over the clip?

Thanks!

yes there are plenty out there, go on to www.download.com and search for avi converter - or anything along those lines, then just search through the results, each one has a little note saying if it has a watermark etc so just find one that doesnt, i find "MPEGvideoconvert" a good one to use

For a freeware application, you could do worse than try out Windows Media Encoder - review and guide at http://www.marcpeters.co.uk/Windows-...Encoder-9.html This will produce WMV encoded output which will be playable on almost any Windows box.

You could also try the DivX or Xvid codecs. A nice little application to convert to DivX is Dr DivX: http://www.marcpeters.co.uk/dr-divx.html

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