Digital video resolution

[sweetpain]

Hello,

I have a sony trv230 digital camera. Using premiere I have captured 7min of footage. During the capture I choose the default resolution of 720X480. My question is: is the digital video realy 720X480? or can I tell premiere to capture at a different level? My second question is: after capturing the 7min video the size of the output file (720X480 avi) was over 1gig, is this normal for 7min? If so how the heck could you do a project that was an hour long? Do I need a massive hard drive?

PS I'm interested in quality, I think I'm going to use tmpg to convert to XVCD since my dvd player will not play SVCD. Is there a way to create the output file in premiere right into tmpg with out converting twice?

Thanks all

[m204310]

1. The output from TRV230 is 720x480 and this is the default in Premiere. Use this resolution to capture your video.
2. The size of the DV AVI file on the disk will be huge. It takes about 4GB for 18 min of DV video, so 1 gig for 7 min. seems about right. You will definitely need a bigger HD (about 20 GB for 1 hour).
3. Use Avisynth Premiere plugin to resize the file and to frameserve from Premiere to TMPGenc without an intermediate step.

Good luck

[sweetpain]

3. Use Avisynth Premiere plugin to resize the file and to frameserve from Premiere to TMPGenc without an intermediate step.

Any idea on how to do this.

Thanks

[m204310]

http://www.videotools.net/uk/guide_premiere_tmpgenc.php

[m204310]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/premiereavisynth.htm