How to shrink AVI files
From SoundTaxi
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Introduction
AVI files may come from various sources and in various sizes. A full length AVI movie with large bitrate and resolution can take up gigabytes of harddrive space and might be too much for your device's CPU. For this and other reasons, you may want to shrink AVI files to a more reasonable size. SoundTaxi is a great tool for shrinking AVI since it provides many bitrate presets for customizing to the output size you need without sacrificing quality.
Get the latest version of SoundTaxi
Install the latest version of SoundTaxi from out official web-site. Download it from here. The latest version includes up to date conversion profile which ensure best output quality and smallest output size.
Select the needed output audio format
Open SoundTaxi settings and select the format in which you would like to save the audio from your source video file in the "Encoder for video files" sub-section. You can select "MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio" for best compatibility with any device and also, great compression, which results in small output file while retaining original quality. Alternatively, you can select "AAC MPEG4 Audio", which may be better suited for Apple devices, like iPods, iPhones, iPads and also for importing into iTunes library.
You can additionally adjust "Compression Quality" based on your needs for sounds quality / output size.
Locate and transfer the output audio files
After you finish converting videos to the output format we specified in the previous section, the audio will be split off from the video and stored in the SoundTaxi output folder. You can right click the file in SoundTaxi and select "Locate converted file" to find it in Windows Explorer.
From there, you can listen to the audio files on your PC or transfer them to one of your devices.
