It is common to encode (compress) movies in order to save some disk capacity. This can be done using various types of codecs. A video codec is a software tool which can code (compress) and decode (decompress) video files. Remember that the codec you use to save the video will be required for playback as well (when playing the video on other computers).
Look at the list of codecs coming with NIS-Elements by default. If other codecs are installed on the computer, they become also available to NIS-Elements.
NIS-Elements compression options
We performed a test by converting a 1 GB / 4000 frames ND2 file to AVI using different codecs. The results are displayed in the list:
Original quality, file size: 787 MB.
This codec produces only videos with 640 x 480 resolution. Videos with other resolutions are stretched to fit, therefore we do not recommend to use this codec.
Very good quality, file size: 240 MB.
Average quality, file size: 70 MB.
Very good quality, file size: 390 MB. Provides the best quality / compression rate.
Very poor quality, file size: 90 MB.
Very poor quality, file size: 6 MB.