Capturing from Hi8 - How do i get file under 700mb?

[oregono]

I want to capture a 60 min video from my hi8 camera and everthing ive tried in premiere, etc racks up to like 4 gigs. I was wondering if anyone has advice on how to capture video so that it will stay below 700mb. I plan on making a vcd out of this video. Like i said, the vid is about an hour long and with audio. A program recomendation and settings would be very helpful. Thanks!

[BJ_M]

i take it any sort of quality doesnt mater to much ?

also depends on your system -- i.e. can you handle real time encode of mpeg4 or mpeg1 ?

what capture card are you using and a few other details as you may have on your system..

btw -- whats wrong with a 4 gig file anyway ?

[oregono]

well, i dont want a 4 gig file cause its gotta fit on a 700 mb cd. I have a 450xl with 128 mb of ram. I have had no trouble capturing video, just need size under 700mb. I have a tnt2 ultra card (32mb). Ill be getting a 2.53 ghz within a couple weeks with 512 mb of ram.

[BJ_M]

well still dont know your capture card but the idea is to capture with quality then compress it to mpeg1 (as it sounds like you want a vcd) ..

to capture it in mpeg1 will not yield as good as quality and it will be a little hit and miss to capture it so it fits exactly on a 700mb disk (which hold a lot more than 700mb btw in mode 2) ..

a 450 will not compress in software in real time to mpeg1 ..

[tonyp12]

I want to capture a 60 min video so that it will stay below 700mb. I plan on making a vcd out of this video.

Convert it to VCD right away, mpeg1 is a pretty good compression
and only mpeg4(divx) could keep it a higer quility.

But AVI to mpeg1 is the way to go and NOT AVI ->mpeg4 ->mpeg1.

[paulgab]

As tonyp12 said, encode your captured file into VCD MPEG1. You can use TMPGenc. Just use the VCD template. Set the "Motion search precision" to High Quality (Slow). Your resulting MPEG would just be around ~650MB with that 60mins video.