Video (FRAPS) help needed

I used /demorecord in-game to get the original footage for a project, then i played them over and recorded that with FRAPS.

So now i have these video files and they are far too large for me to use. Did i do something wrong? Will I have to start over? Or is there something i can use to shrink these to a more manageable size?

Any help is wanted.

Fraps doesn't perform any video compression so the output will be very large, as you have seen. One easy way to reduce the size is to take your avi generated by fraps, and process it through something else such as Windows Movie Maker. Movie Maker will generate a .wmv file with a significantly smaller size. You do, however, need to be careful in the final output you select so that it won't reduce the image quality of the video.