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How to Make AVI Files Smaller

by Christine Smith • 2023-04-17 19:38:42 • Proven solutions

Audio Video Input (also known as AVI) is a file format used for storing songs and video clips. The quality of the AVI video is very good, but the file always takes up a lot of hard drive space. If you want to store these video files on PC or watch them on a tablet or smartphone, you really need to make AVI files smaller. Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) is highly recommended here to help you out. It's an all-in-one video tool that shrinks video size, converts video formats, saves online video, and other portable devices. Thanks to the intuitive user interface, it's really easy-to-use, even if you're new to video processing.

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How to Maker AVI Video File Smaller with Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate)

Now follow the detailed instructions below to learn how to make AVI smaller within 3 steps.

Step 1 Import your AVI video files

Launch Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) and click the + Add Files to open the Add File dialog window, choose one or more video files and click Open to add the AVI video that you want to make smaller.

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Step 2 Adjust video settings to make AVI files smaller

Click the setting icon from the Target section, go to Video > AVI and then click the Setting window, there you can manually adjust the output parameters such as bitrate, frame rate, encoder, and resolution. After adjusting video settings, hit Create, and you'll go back to the main interface.

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Note: The size and quality of the output video are determined by the bitrate value: the higher the bitrate, the better the quality and the larger the video file size, so if you want to reduce movie file size, you need to decrease its bitrate.

Step 3 Save the new AVI video

Now you might notice the video size is smaller than the original one, and click Convert would start converting AVI to the smaller one right away. When the conversion completes, just click the folder-like icon to get the reduced AVI videos.

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