Originally Posted by suffolktoon:
“Any free software out there that can accomplish this. I've tried looking this up on the web but I can't find anything, possibly because my search criteria is wrong.”
Presuming you mean the Foxsat-hdr. It depends on the video data in the avi. If it's a standard TV resolution eg 704 x 576, 720 x 576, 1440 x 1080 or 1920 x 1080 and a standard frame rate of 23.976, 25 or 29.97 frames/sec then it's worthwhile. You need a mpeg2 encoder for the lower 2 resolutions or a mpeg4 (h264) for the HD ones.
Any other frame rate or resolution will need so much resampling it's frankly not worth the effort