newbie help please

[smittymike19]

I just captured my mini dv to my hard drive with a firw wire card (dazzle)
The movie is an hour long and the file is huge. Am i wrong or will compressing this thing to 4.7 gb ( i am going to burn it to a dvd) look like crap? I am going to use the dazzle complete software to author. Any good suggestions on a better program? i want to have great quality so if it takes time to encode that is no problem. I am going to use the dazzle decoding? i think. where is the guide for doing all of this???? any help would be great.

[holistic]

Greetings smittymike19

..The movie is an hour long and the file is huge..

Thats NOT huge you should try 'uncompressed' --Expect 13Gb per hour of DV

Am i wrong or will compressing this thing to 4.7 gb ( i am going to burn it to a dvd) look like crap

Err both ... BTW it is 4.38Gb not 4.7Gb (marketing). The "quality" (don't like this word when talking compression) will be affected by many things : encoder engine , how many passes (ie : how ofter the encoder tries to get best allocation of bitrate) and how much (time wise) video you are putting on the DVD - just to name a few.

Any good suggestions on a better program?

I am sure every NAFA will be just jumping up and down screaming CCE , CCE ,CCE ..... when TMPGEnc just as good a job - So what - set it up .. go to bed. Yes .. yes yes ..slower but has a easier interface.

..i want to have great quality so if it takes time to encode that is no problem..

As above - TMPGEnc also look at CCE , MainConcept encoders

I am going to use the dazzle decoding? i think

HUH !?

where is the guide for doing all of this????

Guides all over this site... move the mouse ..... <---- that way ... Find Guides ...... 'click'


FYI : 1 hour of MPEG2 will fit on a DVD with room to spare.

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