Video compression

[Prowler]

What's a good video compression utility? The Windows Media Encoder app always crashes on my computer, even with the latest version.
Basically, I want to convert the videos I shoot with my digital camera from the huge .mpg to a smaller .avi or .wmv format.

 

[posol]

divx y0.

you can pay for it from divx.com or leech it from somewhere
score yourself adobe premier too

 

[phunky.buddha]

Go get a copy of Premiere 7.

 

[xj0hnx]

I DLed a copy of iVideo from phazeddl.com, works alright too.

 

[Prowler]

I got Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5

Just need to get a firewire card and get things going. Woo w0000