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Compress WTV to Smaller as well as Retain Much Quality?

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Overview

To compress WTV files to much smaller, the best method is to convert WTV to a format that is highly compressed. What format will give smaller file size and what format will retain much quality of video?

I did a test by converting 144MB WTV files to AVI, WMV, MKV, H.264 MP4, QuickTime MOV and WebM using Bigasoft WTV Converter. The file size and quality is as follow.

Format	File Size	Video Quality	Video bitrate
H.264 MP4	8.92MB	better	768
AVI	15.00 MB	inferior	1200
QuickTime MOV	15.20 MB	inferior	768
MKV	15.50 MB	inferior	1200
WMV	18.40 MB	inferior	1200
WebM	30.20 MB	best	1200

Testing Results

Compress in File Size

H.264 MP4 gives the smallest file size for compressing WTV. Compressing WTV to H.264 MPEG-4 is an ideal solution if you your media players can play H.264 MPEG-4 video and if you are trying to move WTV to portable devices like Zune, PSP, iPad, iPhone, iPod and other MP4 players.

WebM gives the largest file size for compress WTV. The other three AVI, QuickTime MOV, WMV gives basically quite same file size when compress WTV.

Compress Video quality

Converting WTV to WebM format gives the best quality. It seems the quality is even better than the original. H.264 gives the second best output quality. The other three format AVI, QuickTime MOV, WMV gives basically quite same output video quality when compress WTV.

Compress Quality Comparison

What is the Ideal Format to Use for Compress WTV files?

I'd vote H.264 MPEG-4 as the winner for the smallest output file size as well as the second best output image quality among the compared video formats. Besides, H.264 is more compatible with editing programs such as Sony Vegas, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid, iMovie and portable players like Zune, PSP, iPad, iPhone, iPod and other MP4 players.

Of course, if you have media players (such as Android phones and Android Tab )compatible with WebM and if your concern is for HTML5 video or uploading WTV to YouTube, it is good idea to compress WTV to WebM as it gives the best video quality even better than the original.

For Windows users, if your concern is for burning DVD or edit with Windows Movie Maker, you can compress WTV by converting WTV to AVI. If you do care the video quality, you can use Bigasoft WTV Converter to adjust video bitrate to increase video quality.

3 Steps to Compress WTV Files to Smaller Size by Converting WTV to H.264 MPEG-4, AVI, WebM

Make Preparation: Free Download Bigasoft WTV Converter (for Windows, for Mac). Run and install.

Step 1 Import WTV file

Press "Add File" button to import your WTV file. Or you can also drag your WTV files directly to the main interface of Bigasoft WTV Converter.

WTV to H.264

Step 2 Set output format

Take compress WTV to H.264 MP4 for example.
Click the drop-down button on the right side of the "Profile" button to select H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video as output format from the "General Video" category.

Tips: Edit before convert
you can edit WTV files like trim and crop to remove commercials, split large files to smaller, crop to focus video and join several video files into one, set aspect ratio from to 16:9 or 4:3. All the functions can be applied in the Editing Window which can be opened by clicking "Effect" in the main menu.