need help in choosing a format after video edit (DV then edit then DVD)

[shade_2]

I am newbie and I am trying to convert a home video to DVD. I am trying to use MSU color enhancement filter on source video (DV) and I think I have found a good setting for my home video.

But what format(compress or uncompress) should I choose to save my changes? I tried to do uncompress AVI and the estimated file size it huge. I am not sure about compress AVI because I think I will lost some video quality. Please forgive my newbie question. I have tried goggle and search videohelp but I cant seem to find it.

thanks in advance...

[guns1inger]

You can use DV, with minimal quality loss.

You can use a lossless codec such as huffyuv or lagarith. Both will be large, but far smaller than uncompressed. Lagarith usually comes in at around 30 - 35GB/hour for SD footage for me, but it can vary a little either side of this.

Or finally, you can frameserve to your mpeg-2 encoder and not have an intermediate file other than the temporary sign-post file created during frameserving.

[edDV]

I edit DV source to DV project and print the edit back to DV tape* for backup and then encode DVD MPeg2.

* or back to a DV-AVI file to hard disk.

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I am now encoding it to Mpeg2 after saving it to DV (using Panasonic DV codec).

Thanks for the fast replies...

[guns1inger]

In future I would recommend you use the cenodica DV codec with virtualdub instead. The Panasonic DV Codec has known quality issues.

[edDV]

1. Avoid Panasonic DV codec for home camcorder video. It chops your whites. As sggested by guns1inger, use Cedocida codec instead if you must convert from DV format.
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic353165.html

2. What editor are you using? Better to edit in DV format without RGB conversion if possible. Source DV->EditDV->Archive-DV->Encode MPeg2 for DVD.