83.1 GB on a single AVI file!?

elevatorfan7072

elevatorfan7072

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Using SpaceMonger to find out what is in my hard drives, I came across two EXTREMELY LARGE AVI files. One is 83.1 GB, and the other is about 40 GB. They can't be played. Trying to play in Winamp has crashed it. The file is called "clip0023.avi" and I don't know what it's doing there. The obvious answer is to delete it, but I would like to know if anyone knows what this is!

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Well we won't have any idea either because they're in your documents folder and we don't know what you do on your PC or what software you have installed. Delete them all and see if they reappear - if they do you know it's software you have on your PC.

Have you been editing video and rendered the final thing in AVI? AVI is uncompressed so an 83GB AVI file isn't too surprising if the video is long and high resolution.

If you did render in AVI because you want good quality, might I suggest using h.264 (MP4) in the future? It's still very good quality but much better at file compression.
 
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Apparently they're HyperCam 2 recordings from 2010. I didn't delete all of them, but just the corrupted ones that were hogging up space.
The video was probably 1366x768 and longer than 20 minutes.
 
elevatorfan7072 said:
Apparently they're HyperCam 2 recordings from 2010. I didn't delete all of them, but just the corrupted ones that were hogging up space.
The video was probably 1366x768 and longer than 20 minutes.
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Well there's your answer then. 720p isn't a particularly high res but AVI does a great job at making large files - especially when it comes to length. :)

Do you need it anymore? If not delete it or if you do need it then it might be worth converting them to MP4 because it will greatly reduce file size. You could get these files down to less than 1GB in size, maybe even less than 500MB depending what bitrate the file converter does.

I haven't used DVDVideoSoft software in a long time but this software from them looks like it'll convert AVI to MP4 (and it's free!) http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-MP4-Video-Converter.htm#.U_o4GPldV8E
 
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Going forward, you should rename the files and put them in subfolders to keep things organized.
 
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