Movie files are too big

I got lazy while I was ripping my copy of Gone Baby Gone, and the Handbrake resulted in a 2GB file. My girl and I are wanting to watch it (via streaming to my xbox 360) but the files are too big, and I let my brother borrow the actual DVD for the week so he and his wife can watch it.

I need to get the file down to 1GB. I've tried FFmpegX, but it results in a squished view where everyone looks tall and thin, of it has a green stripe on the very bottom... What do I need to do?

Well, I've managed to get a hold of a few programs, and have tried them out:

MPEGstreamclip
FFmpegX
handbrake (as of yesterday)

MSC did the job, but the resulting video was brighter and had lost tons of quality. I have attached an image with the original file on the right.

FFmpegX had the squished video or the green stripe

Handbrake is actually running right now, and I will post it's results in a minute or two.

all those are good programs, you may need to tweak the settings but try different codecs

try MPEG-4

On the Apple Website there are tips to making your movie file sizes smaller as well.

louishen said:

all those are good programs, you may need to tweak the settings but try different codecs

try MPEG-4

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Yeah, Mpeg-4 is the only codec i use. I need to have h.264 so that it can play on my 360. Handbrake was the winner in this tiny competition of mine, it was nice because I already had the presets configured, and now I can use it on the files i made too big in the first place.

The only thing that I could find on the Apple site was things about their FinalCut Suite

Oh, and I tried uploading a picture of the results, but it just will not let me upload the screenshot (less than 1MB), it says it's uploading, but then it just hangs there for a few minutes...