too much compression

[bobkart]

Understood. It would save you from typing "I don't understand ..." yet a fifth time.

You're obviously early on in your learning-about-digital-video journey. As were we all once.

[edDV]

To summarize

1. 8MM recorded to DV camcorder
2. DV data is transferred from camcorder to DV-AVI file on hard drive. This can be done with WinDV or Studio 10.
3. Edit in DV format project defaults.
4. Export "Edit Master" back to DV-AVI format or back to tape.
This is your high quality archive.
5. Encode to DVD MPeg2 and author to DVD. This is your lower quality distribution copy that will play on a DVD player.


PS: "It doesn't make sense to me if a file is under 4.7G that any compression is needed."

There are probabaly a few billion DVD players out there. Are you saying they have to change because of you? Or, do you need to change to adapt to what a DVD player is?