AVI file size problem and what is the best resolution?

[luzgin]

Hello,

I 'm trying to capture video from my camcoder via FireWire connection.
I noticed that any capturing program saves result as an AVI file.
But the problem is that my 30 seconds movie takes about 80Mb avi and 8 minutes 3.5Gb. I want to capture all 60 minutes but figured out I will not have enough space on my hard drive.
* Is it supposed to be like it?
* Anybody knows how to make the result avi smaller without loosing quality?

I captured with recommended frame size 320x240, 30fm/s NTSC.
After I burned a VCD with a sample 30 secs movie I noticed that quality was terrible - looks like 320x240 resolution is too small.
I found that my TV uses a mask of about 520 vertical lines.
* Any advice on what is the best resolution to choose?

Thank you,
Eugene

[Aharami]

same problem here. cant figure out how to convert to divx....virtualdub is not working for reason...wont even opn the captured avi file

[Bud]

Yes...all your AVI files wil be large, the standard VirtuadBud AVI for say 60 min will be about 35-40 GB, however if you use a DV Avi format it will be about 10-15 GB, I use Premiere 6.0 to capture from firewire in the DV AVi format. After you convert to MPEG it be a very small file to burn to VCD or SVCD.

Bud

[Tommy]

Check the How To section to your left and it will answer your questions.

[SingSing]

That why dvcam did not take off,
and sony, sharp.. and other are trying out mpeg2 .. mpeg4...mov

[Tommy]

Sorry SingSing, but i disagree. I think the mini DV format Has already "taken off", and with new computers having much bigger drives the space limitation won't be that much of a problem.

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