How To Compress AVI Files Efficiently?

I. What is the AVI format?

The full name of AVI in English is Audio Video Interleaved, which is the audio and video interleaved format. It was launched by Microsoft in November 1992 as a multimedia container format as part of Windows video software. It can contain audio (voice) and video (image) data in a file container, allowing audio and video to be played back synchronously.

The advantage of this video format is that it can be used across multiple platforms, such as Windows, Mac (a third-party player with a codec needs to be installed), Linux, Unix, and most mainstream browsers support files in this format . Its disadvantage is that the volume is too large, and its compression standards are not uniform. It is manifested that the high-version Windows media player cannot play the AVI format video edited by the early encoding, and the low-version Windows media player cannot play the AVI format edited by the latest encoding. video. Therefore, the AVI video may not be played due to video encoding problems, or there may be problems such as the inability to adjust the playback progress of the AVI video during playback, or only sound but no image.

If users encounter these problems when playing videos in AVI format, they can be solved by downloading the corresponding codec or using software with format conversion function.

After understanding the definition of AVI format, let’s take a look at the methods of compressing AVI files.

II. How to compress files in AVI format?

1. Use Renee Video Editor software to compress AVI format files

What is Renee Video Editor software?

Renee Video Editor is a video editing software with various functions. This software can not only realize the mutual conversion between various video formats, such as WMV, AVI, MP4, M4A, MOV, MKV and almost all commonly used video formats, but also can Save the file as a file format supported by different terminal devices; in addition, the software is also equipped with a variety of video editing tools, which can meet your diverse video editing needs, such as merging multiple videos, customizing batch editing of videos, Crop the video screen, add subtitles, watermarks, special effects filters and background music, realize the effect of multiple videos playing on the same screen at the same time, etc.

The software is easy to operate and easy to use. Whether you are a novice in video editing or a professional editing expert, this software will be a very good choice for you.

How to compress AVI files with Renee Video Editor software?

It is very simple to compress AVI format files with Renee Video Editor software, the specific operation process is as follows:

Step 1: After downloading and installing, run the Renee Video Editor software, select the (Video Compression) function in the function menu bar of the home page and enter.

Renee Video Editor Software home page function description:

cropping: Crop the size of the video frame

merge: Merge multiple video/audio files into one complete file

Rotation: Rotate the video 90°/180°/270° clockwise, counterclockwise, or turn the video upside down or mirror.

Soundtrack: Adjust volume, select audio tracks, score videos or delete original audio.

segmentation: Divide the movie into multiple small clips according to duration, number of segments or file size.

Watermark: Add text, pictures, videos or GIF pictures to the video in the form of watermark.

Split movie frames: One video or multiple video clips can be spliced into one video screen.

Video enhancements: Improve video quality.

Video Compression: Compress movie size.

GIFs Make: Make videos or pictures into GIF files.

Subtitles/Text: Add subtitles/text to videos.

Filter/Speed: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and add a variety of special effects; video speed adjustment supports 1/10-4 times speed adjustment.

Advanced editing: Edit video, crop video, add watermark, subtitles, filter effects and soundtrack.

Easy clip: Quickly cut video clips.

Batch clipping: Batch clip video/audio.

Step 2: Next, click the (+) icon to import the AVI video that needs to be compressed into the software (or directly drag and drop it into the software).

Step 3: At this time, the page will jump to the detailed editing interface of video compression, you can directly drag the scroll bar to compress the video; or customize and adjust various parameters of the video file, such as file size, output format, resolution, Video quality, frame rate. After the setting is complete, click (Preview) to watch the video screen of the adjusted parameters. If there is no other operation, select the location where the video file is saved in (Save File), and then click the (Compress) button to start executing the command to compress the AVI file, which is very fast.

2. Use YouCompress online tool to compress AVI files

YouCompress is a free online video compression tool with a simple interface and clear functions, which can help you compress AVI videos easily. In addition, the tool is also compatible with files in MP4, MOV, MP3, PDF, PNG, JPEG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, DOC, XLS, PPT, ODT, APK, WAV and other formats. The good thing about using this tool is that you don’t need to register to use it and the output files are not watermarked. But the disadvantage is that the tool has limitations on the size of files that need to be compressed: video files cannot exceed 500MB; audio files cannot exceed 150MB.

Compressing AVI files with the help of YouCompress online tool is very simple, the specific operation steps are as follows:

Use a browser to open the operating website of YouCompress online video editing tool: https://www.youcompress.com, and then import the AVI video file to be compressed into the web server through the (Select file) button. Wait for a while, after the video compression process is completed, the (Download) button will appear on the page, click this button to quickly save the compressed AVI video file to the preset location.

3. Use clideo online video editing tool to compress AVI video

Clideo is a free online video editing tool, which has common video editing functions such as cutting, rotating, adding text, resizing video screen, video cropping, and video flipping. In addition, it also supports conversion between various video formats, such as MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, M4A, FLA, WAV, etc. Compressing AVI video with this tool is also relatively simple, the specific operation steps are as follows:

Use a browser to open the operating website of the clideo online video editing tool: https://clideo.com/compress-avi, and then import the AVI video file to be compressed into the web server through the (Choose file) button. Wait for a while, after the video compression process is completed, you can see the initial video file size, the compressed video file size, and the compressed video screen appear above the video screen. Then click the (Download) button to quickly execute the command to save the compressed AVI video file to the preset location, or directly share it to Facebook, YouTube and other social media platforms.

It is worth mentioning that if you are not satisfied with the compression effect, you can click the (Start over) button at the bottom to further compress the video file, and repeat the compression many times to achieve the best compression you expect Effect. In addition, the video content compressed and exported using the clideo online tool will have a watermark by default. If you need to remove the watermark, you can register and log in to the account to remove it.

4. Use VEED.IO online video editing tool to compress AVI video

VEED.IO is a powerful online video editing tool. It not only supports the compression of video files in various formats, such as: AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV, MAV, etc., but also can perform a series of online editing of video files. Such as cropping/cutting video, adding text/subtitle/music, saving video files as GIF pictures, etc. It is very simple to compress AVI video with the help of this tool, the specific operation steps are as follows:

Use a browser to open the operation website of VEED.IO online video editing tool: https://www.veed.io/tools/avi-compressor, and then click the (Get Started Now) button to enter the video upload interface. Then click the (Upload Video) button to import the AVI video file to be compressed into the web server. Wait for a while, after the video is uploaded, find the (Adjust) option in (Project)-(Export Settings) to adjust the parameters, such as resolution and frame rate. Click (Publish) after the operation is completed, and click the (Download) button after the file compression is completed to quickly save the compressed AVI video file to the preset location.

III. Summary

The above are the four methods that can compress AVI files. Except for Renee Video Editor software, the other three methods are online operations. The advantage of online tools is convenience, you can operate directly without downloading special software locally. However, there are also some disadvantages, such as a great dependence on the network, and an unstable network environment may cause video upload failure or compression failure; there is a risk of data leakage when uploading video files to web servers; plus most The online video editing tool of the company has restrictions on the size of uploaded files, etc.

If you want to avoid the above drawbacks, it is recommended to choose a more stable and safer local video editing software – Renee Video Editor for video compression. Of course, if the video files you need to compress are not confidential and you only need to compress videos occasionally, online tools are also a good choice. You can choose the method that suits you according to the above introduction and your own needs.