I need video compression help.

[DeepBlueJH]

I recently bought a JVC digital camcorder. Now im in the experimenting stage regarding video compression for storage on my hard drive (note: I have a DVDRW and a CDRW drive for burning full quality DV video). I have experimented with the following video formats:

Quicktime
Windows Media
MPEG
AVI (DivX)
Real Media

So far, Ive gotten the best results when using Windows media streamed @ 768kbs. This seems to offer the best image quality/file size trade off. It even performed better than the much vaunted Divx format. I have constantly played with the framerates, bitrates, audio compression, and every other option I have found (note: I mainly use Adobe Premier, but have other minor programs at my disposal).

So, what I'm trying to achieve is the kind of quality you get from a 90 min movie compressed to ~720MB and still looks decent at full screen. Such a movie is compressed in DivX format, but I just cant seem to achieve the quality for a given file size.

Any advice you guys have would be greatly appreciated

 

[DeepBlueJH]

does anyone have anything for me?

 

[scottrico]

vcdhelp

All kinds of programs and guides to help you.

you can use mpeg compression to fit that amount of video on one cd.

hope that helps.

 

[scottrico]

btw

Make sure you capture using a good codex, like huffy.(almost no compression)
also do not use adobe Premier encode you final video, it sucks.
use a free program like TMPGEnc (under tools at vcdhelp).
Use the users created TMPGEnc templates (at bottom of page) to fit video on one cd.
peace