VHS/Beta Tuner MPEG2 from capture Card to Compress to Smaller File; HELP

[gauthijm]

RE; VHS/Beta Tuner MPEG2 from capture Card to Compress to Smaller File; HELP

Hi gang,

My 1st post here.

I am bewildered and awed at the breath of knowledge (and options) here and have much to learn.

I installed a MPEG card TV Tuner card in my PC and transferring older VHS 9and Beta) types into Digital files. At this point it is doing about 900 Megs Per hour as a file. I think it saves it as a Mpeg, if I read right

My Question is this;

Waat Easy-to-use software can I use, hopefully with a GUI that will take a 3 Gig Mpeg file (or any file really..) and compress it/ make it smaller without noticeable loss of Quality ?

Thanks in advance
nice to be here

Take care
Jean

[hech54]

Waat Easy-to-use software can I use, hopefully with a GUI that will take a 3 Gig Mpeg file (or any file really..) and compress it/ make it smaller without noticeable loss of Quality ?

Not gonna happen(with no quality loss).
Author and burn your captures to DVD (good quality DVDs too like Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim)
or get a bigger hard drive to store them on until you are ready to burn....or later compress WITH quality loss.