Hi Folks,
I am still a newbie when it comes to capturing videos and authoring DVDs, so I hope someone can help with this.
I have a Sony HandyCam HC30 camcorder, I also have the firewire cable to transfer the video to my computer. Here is where the question comes in.
I have been using DVIO to capture the video to my computer and Using VDub to make small edits (cutting out un-needed frames etc). Then I use ConvertX to DVD 3 to burn the DVDs. I just caputed a 12min video and the size was 12GB
When editing in VDUB I use Direct stream copy to just cut some frames out (like someone filming the floor etc). After I make the cuts I import into ConvertX to burn.
Should I be compressing the video before loading it into ConvertX to minimize file size. I would like to keep a good quality but I also do not want 20-25 mins of video to take up a whole DVD.
Should I be capturing in VDUB instead?
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capped DV is 13GB per hour
it sounds like vdub is saving your video uncompressed...try setting it's compression to DV
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