[solarbear]

I used Handbrake to transfer massive avi files from VHS capture to manageable mp4, those files started out at 30gb for a 2 hour movie and after the transfer, they were around 2gb. I remember the bitrate had a big influence on file size. I think i remember setting it at 1500 for max quality/file size balance. It needs a good quad core (core 2 or athlon II) CPU to work reasonably fast though.