720x568 PAL xvid 62 minutes - the size of the file should be

[kb1985]

I want to make 62 minutes of 720x568 PAL xvid + lame mp3.
It's made "from hand" with lots of "drunk" dynamic scenes.
What size of file do you suggest?
The quality of 350 MB is definitely poor.
Do you think that 700 MB will be ok or shall i split it on two cd's? Or maybe you have another solution? Just want to know your opinons before i contiune experimenting with this material by myself.

greetings
k,.

[junkmalle]

Use single pass quantization (constant quality) mode in xvid. Select the picture quality you want (the lower the Q value the better the picture), then encode. Let the file come out to whatever size is necessary to get that quality. I recommend you start at around 3, then go lower if you want more quality, higher if you can live with less.

By the way, with bright shakey camcorder footage you may be looking at 5000 kbps or more to get xvid near the quality of a DV source.

[thor300]

Resize it if you want to fit on one CD, for ex 640x480, or less. PAL DV will be wrong AR when played on computer anyway if not resized. Deinterlacing is also required if it came from a normal camcorder, or else it will look even more terrible after resize and no way to fix it from the resized file.