How to compress a video?

[Lo]

Hi all, I'm new to Video editting. I borrowed a DV and captured some videos at DV quality, which is of course EXTREMELY large [ takes up nearly 20gb sth for about two tapes ]. Why is it so big? Can I do it in a way smaller??


Also, they are so space-consuming I need to burn them into copies for others. What can I use to compress and still maintain an OK quality? I tried Virtual Dub with DivX but it gives me a LOT of squares, I don't know why please give me some advice. Thanks~

[fmctm1sw]

Hi all, I'm new to Video editting. I borrowed a DV and captured some videos at DV quality, which is of course EXTREMELY large [ takes up nearly 20gb sth for about two tapes ]. Why is it so big? Can I do it in a way smaller??


Also, they are so space-consuming I need to burn them into copies for others. What can I use to compress and still maintain an OK quality? I tried Virtual Dub with DivX but it gives me a LOT of squares, I don't know why please give me some advice. Thanks~

Welcome to the world of video! If you think DV is bad, an uncompressed AVI at D1 resolution will be in excess of 1GB per minute Do some reading. You can convert to DVD, DIVX, etc. It's wide open. What do you want to do?

[mats.hogberg]

A video file can be made smaller by encoding it at a lower bit rate. That's it. Different codecs (like DivX, XviD, m1v, m2v...) has (at a given resolution) different "lowest acceptable bit rate". Best effort I've seen this far is actually (I hate to admit it!) Nero Digital but DivX/XviD is close behind.

/Mats

[fmctm1sw]

Best effort I've seen this far is actually (I hate to admit it!) Nero Digital but DivX/XviD is close behind.

/Mats

[Lo]

Afterall, what is best? Any good examples to do it?

I saw the quality probably relates to that xxx kbps. Whats best and optimum?