I hope you can help. We encoded VHS tapes to MPEG and the file sizes are enormous and difficult to save long term because how many we go through a day at this company. For instance, a 2 minute video is 100 MB alone! Is there a quick easy way to batch save a folder of MPEGs with high compression easily? We can trim these down a lot since they are video clips of sewer lines for warranty and the video is very grainy from being underground and dirty lens.

You need to do either of two things .... Change the way you capture the VHS using MPEG 1 or 2 you should get easily get 10 megs a minute - VHS is low quality stuff if you are stuck with these 100 MB files you will have to recode them into another, or better format but this takes time at least the length of the clip Can you not set an archive process overnight that saves these large files to DVD or tape

A 100mb video file is not very big (relitively speaking). DV(avi) for example, is roughly 13gig per hour. An hour of mpeg2 at a bitrate of 6000k is about 2.5gig (give or take a little). I do a lot of video editing and I regularly fill 3 250gig drives and have to stop and clean them out. You can do as above and shift over to mpeg1 or you can render (or re-capture) at a lower bitrate, but the quality will suffer and you won't get it back.... once its gone... its gone.

If you want to archive them use UHARC Multimedia Archiver "Computer security." — Oxymoron