FromCapturing To Final Deinterlaced,Edited,Compressed Film

[bubu001]

Hello

I have quite a short time to edit all my 13 hours captured MiniDV video, so would be thankful, if somebody wrote me the easiest way of making normal sized high quality video.

I`m interested in the whole process!

1. Capture it with the best program. I guess WinDV is good for it.

2. I would like to edit the raw material, want to cut it and I also need deinterlacing, because I want to view it on computer. And finally some compression is necessary just to be able to write it on DVD. (I want it to be about 1.5 hours).
I dont know the correct order of editing, deinterlacing and compressing (mpeg2, xvid or anything else), and also want to know which programs and codecs should I use!
The most important thing for me is the QUALITY!
I hope my question(s) is understandable and will get a proper answer!

Thanks your reply in advance

[bubu001]

Up!

Please Somebody!!!

HEEELP ME

[daamon]

Hi bubu001,

These old links of mine may well provide most of the useful information. There are links within them, so be sure to follow those too.

Any questions, post back in this thread and I'll try to help.

www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=809541#809541 (this post, and my one straight after it too).

www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1107545#1107545

Yes, WinDV is good.

As for the de-interlacing, I'm sure there's a filter in VirtualDub that'll do that. The save to DV AVI for editing. But, if it's going to DVD for TV, I'd strongly suggest leaving it interlaced and then using something like PowerDVD or WinDVD to watch (plays AVIs too, I believe, as well as DVDs) to watch as these de-interlace for you.

It means you're not restricted to watching solely on the PC monitor.

[edDV]

Don't deinterlace if your goal is playback on a DVD player to a TV. That will kill quality.

What type of editing do you contemplate? Just cuts?
Do you have an editing package currently or plan to buy one?

1 DV camcorder -> IEEE-1394 -> DV-AVI file (use WinDV)
2 Edit DV-AVI
3 Encode MPeg2 (for 90min I'd start with 8,000max/6,000mid/4,000 min VBR 2pass).
If all shots are handheld and you want quality, go to 8,000Kbps CBR and 60 min/DVD disc.
4 Author DVD

For computer view optimized file
3a Deinterlace (quality killer, a good motion adaptive algorithm suggested)
4a Encode for computer distribution (choose your favorite MPeg4 derivative)
5 copy to server.