How can I compress a movie to a specific file size in Windows 7's Live Movie Maker?

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Published on 2012-03-31T17:00:30Z Indexed on 2012/03/31 17:34 UTC
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In previous versions of Windows Movie Maker I could take a raw video file and specify the file size to compress it to, and Movie Maker would compress it accordingly (with the appropriate loss in quality). Live Movie Maker, which comes with Windows 7, doesn't seem to have this option. I can only set specify the requested quality.

Is there any way to specify the size of the target file for Windows Live Movie Maker?

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