INDEX  F.A.Q.  SEARCH  LATEST POSTS     Rules  Register  Profile  Private messages  Login


Search all forums or this forum: Advanced search
AVI Files
Forum Index -> Video -> Capturing Printer-friendly version
Reply to topic
Author Message
MovieFreak
Member


Joined: 27 Jun 2001
Post Posted: Jul 05, 2001 07:14 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I am sure this question has been asked many times.

I have some MiniDV Camcorder home movie footage I would like to record to VCD. I will shortly be purchasing some software to allow me to encode directly to MPEG1 from the source.
However, at the moment, I am limited to recording from the source into .AVI format.

The only problem is, the AVI file is HUGE. A 1 min clip totals approx 200MB. This would make a 60 minute home recording into an unmanageable size.

I read of people converting AVI files to MPEG1. My question is, how big do your AVI files get??!! A 5 min clip for me would be 1 GigaByte and 60 mins would produce a 12GB file!

Not really a big deal coz of the MPEG software I'll be getting soon, but I'm just curious. What are the AVI capturing techniques you guys use?? I guess people converting from AVI to MPEG must have huge hard disks.





Cam Corder
Member


Joined: 30 May 2001
Post Posted: Jul 05, 2001 08:43 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I do this all the time and the results are great and fun. I can compress 2 gigs (? about 20minutes of video) to about 50-100megs (going from memory), but it really depends on your setting. The software I use is TMPGenc to convert AVI to MPEG-1. Note, TMPGenc is free and downloadable so you don't have to wait!!!

The conversion to MPEG-1 takes a while though.

Cam Corder
Member


Joined: 30 May 2001
Post Posted: Jul 05, 2001 08:44 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I do this all the time and the results are great and fun. I can compress 2 gigs (? about 20minutes of video) to about 50-100megs (going from memory), but it really depends on your setting. The software I use is TMPGenc to convert AVI to MPEG-1. Note, TMPGenc is free and downloadable so you don't have to wait!!!

The conversion to MPEG-1 takes a while though.

Zak0
Member


Joined: 25 Jun 2001
Location: Tulsa
Post Posted: Jul 05, 2001 10:49 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Yeah, I use TMPGEnc to encode my captured AVI files as well. I capture using VirtualDub with Huffyuv compression - 30 minutes takes up like 4 gig or so, I think. Cutting/editing the AVI file using VirtualDub usually takes a bunch more disk space. Lastly, I encode to MPEG-1 (VCD) using TMPGEnc and it takes like an hour per 10 minutes of video on my Athlon 800.

If you don't already have a big hard drive, buy one -- they're pretty darned cheap now!


_________________
-Zak

Cart Wheel
Member


Joined: 20 Feb 2001
Post Posted: Jul 05, 2001 10:51 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
DV runs at about 3.6 MB/sec. Compared to many capture formats, that is actually quite small. Be glad you're using DV and not an analog capture card with Huffyuv, which can easily require 10 MB/sec at DV resolution.

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html

MovieFreak
Member


Joined: 27 Jun 2001
Post Posted: Jul 06, 2001 05:00 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thanks for the info everyone.

I think my problem lies in my AVI captruing software. I currently use MGI Videowave III. I will try VirtualDub and see how that goes.

Yep, I agree with the comments about TMPGEnc... I think it's a really cool tool!



Reply to topic All times are GMT - 6 Hours
Forum Index -> Video -> Capturing Page 1 of 1





You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
Jump to:  
Display:   
About   Advertise   Forum Archive   RSS Feeds   Statistics