Vision V Plus: Video conversion/compress

I've grabbed the latest version of the Creative Video Converter... but converting a 350MB AVI gives me a 700MB AVI (which kind of defeats the purpose of all the cool compression tools around).
I've poked around with SUPER a bit, but I have no idea what settings are good for my Vision V Plus. I'm also hoping that I don't magically DOUBLE my file size from SHRINKING my video.
Anyone with experience with this?

Okay here are the settings but when you convert the size still goes up for me.. but are the settings that work for me... -Select Out Containter: Avi-Out Video Condec: DivX- Out put audio: Mp3-Video Scale: No change-frames/sec: 25-bit rate: 768-Sample freq: 4400-channel: 2- bit rate kps: 28?ok hope this works for u -

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