Best/Easiest way to convert a 60 min DV tape to an avi/mpg that will fit on one CDR?

[Hooobi]

I shot some spring break footage on my panasonic DV camera and now I'm trying to figure out how to get this video onto a cd so I can send it to friends.

I tried using the capture software that came with the camera but it was eating up my HD at the rate of 1GB/min of footage. Anyone have any advice on how to do this more efficiently?

thanks

H

 

[AubZ]

Wowza, you check the framerate/size that you're capturing with?
Cause 1Gig/min is insane.
I do a lot of TV capture myself from TV tuner card, and even with MPG2 (SVCD) quality, I only average 1Gig/HOUR.

 

[Hooobi]

What kind of framerate/size do I want to have so that the movie can be played full screen & still look decent?

 

[LethalWolfe]

1gig/min? Are you using an analog capture card or fireware? 'cause DV is a set standard and is ~1gig/4min. But that's beside the point. You can either capture at a lower res and/or FPS or capture at normal res and FPS and then compress it and then burn it. I'm assuming you don't want to spend lotsa money, so check out VCDhelp or doom9 or Virtualdub.


LEthal

 

[yobarman]

hmmm 60 minutes of DV cam...if you save that as standard DV-NTSC...well you'll end up with around 15-30 gigs of footage. Once you edit it all out, you can export with some type of compression, most likely divx, you might be able to get it under 650 megs.

 

[Hooobi]

Actually, now that I think about it... the one time I captured an entire tape, it was closer to 26gigs & not 1gig/min...

My capture card is firewire and I'm basically trying to find a really easy way to put the whole thing on a CD w/o wasting much time or effort. I'd rather sacrifice screen size than resolution...

Judging by the icons on my desktop, I have Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 SE Basic, RadLight 3.03 and Movie Messenger...

Any other software suggestions (preferably free/shareware) would be appreciated.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Have you checked out the linx I posted?


Lethal