Hahaha, if you scroll back a month or two, you will find a recs post full of fanvids! In fact, when I was 15 I made a Swans Crossing fan vid (before I knew that it was actually a real live art and not just me being dumb and emo)...

In conclusion, yes. Also, I have looked there. Not much help, unfortunately, since it's less about the compression and more about the way I am importing the file to my computer (from VHS) in the first place. Le sigh, so tragic! But thanks for the thought!!