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[ebamit]

I've spent the past several days learning a TON about converting VHS to avi and then to mpeg. I'm using a AverMedia TV Studio card, Athlon 1800 XP, 512 meg of RAM, 80 gig hard drive. I've successully converted an 11 minute VHS tape to avi (1.2 gig!!) and then to mpeg using Virtaldub and TMPGEnc (I also have Premiere 6.0 but have not used it yet). However, I now need some help. I want to make this 11 minute file into two files for my web site: A high bandwidth version and a low bandwidth version. I would greatly appreciate it is someone would advise the best settings (compression, frame rates, audio settings, etc...) to accomplish this task. As much as I've learned, I've run out of time to teach myself and still get this done on time. Thanks in advance!

[snowmoon]

For viewing on a PC or just high bandwidth in general?

The low bandwidth is an easy one. De-interlace, NR, and resize to 320x240 and encode with the mpeg-4 of the week at 300-700kbps. ( 24-60mb )

If you are going for no holds barred high bandwith go DVD 704(or 720 if that's what you got )x480 mpeg-2 at 6mbps VBR ( 490 mb ) or Half d1 352x480 @ 3mbps avg VBR ( 245 mb )

Sizes are approximate based on 11 minutes of video.

[ebamit]

Thanks for the reply. By high bandwidth I mean a higher-quality version for people with big pipes. Two questions: what does NR mean and where can I get the mpeg-4 codec? Thanks again.