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I've a high-quality movie of 720*304 dimension with a size of 1.45 GB, and duration of 2:20 Hrs.
I need to compress it to near about 700-750 MB with about 90% Picture quality and 70% sound quality.
Which format should I convert the video to from mp4,mpg,wmv,mkv or anything else ? Brute force is not an option !

Sourav
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I would recompile the video to h264 at around 700 kBit/sec, at the original resolution, and the sound to MP3 at 128 kbit/s. This will get you to around 735 MB or so.

For the video, use the best compressor you can lay your hands on (for example x264) and use variable bitrate and two pass compression — or set a target size. I use the compressor from Apple and am happy with it, although other tools like Handbrake exist.

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