Firewire capture and coversion

[Haas]

Hi
I grabbed a firewire card awile ago and then it kinda sat there for awhile after the initial testing. I have a JVC digital video camera and my main goal is to put my video on CD so I can watch it in my Apex dvd player which plays all forms of Cd's. I am using premiere and capturing the video with out a problem how ever the file are rather large and I now need to convert these to mpeg so I can burn them with Nero to a VCD............ Now am I doing this the best way I can? Is there a better way? Is there a capture program that will capture in something i can simply then burn to a cd and have a VCD? Is there something i should change in Premiere so the files are smaller and in a different format so it is easier?


Thanks for the help

[Haas]

Sorry one other thing what whouls I use to covert the avi to mpeg?

[statuspending]

tmpg should work

[Haas]

anyone have any other ideas?

[statuspending]

what...

ARE YOU SAYING MINE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU????

[ktoey]

The newly released Mediostrean NeoDVD will convert DV through firewire directly to DVD format and burn DVD on either CD (mini DVD) or DVD-R.
Check it out at http://www.mediostream.com.

They also have CAMPEG RT which convert DV through firewire into mpeg2 files.

[Haas]

I think I already know to use that thanks for the info I am just asking if that is the only and best way

[Haas]

thanks Ktoey and status

[Haas]

one other thing

what is the best way to capture it from the digital camera?

tmpg for coverting is fine but i am wondering if I am caprtuing the video the best way
HD space is not a consern and time is not a factor

I am running a p800 with 762 mg's of ram
so I have the speed and ram and i am capturing using Premiere

so i guess what i am asking is premiere the best way to capture it I know it is the best program

thanks

[jtor]

digital camcorder to PC thru firewire is the best. your other option is to use analog out of your dv cam, and use an analog capture device/card; which defeats the purpose of going the digital camcorder route, so I won't recommend that.