8mm to PC with WinFast TV

Hi, I have 10 hours in 8mm tapes. Recorded with a Sony Handycam CCD-TR45. Sony Video8 MP tapes (NTSC).

And now I have a Leadtek WinFast TV USB II Deluxe (PVR)
www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tvusb2_deluxe_1.html

Which is the best resolution for this capture?


First I tried with this format:
Format: .WMV
Res: 320x240
Duration: 71 min
Total size: 816 MB

Properties Summary:

• -Video
  Data rate: 1272 kbps
  Video sample size: 24 bit
  Stream name: video 2
  
  - Audio
  Bit rate: 1415 kbps
  Audio sample size: 16 bit
  Channels: 2 (stereo) //Monoaural is my Handycam
  Audio sample rate: 44 kHz

Very good result but it was my first time and want to know which could be better, if needed. I don't want more than 2 GB per hour.


The Leadtek WinFast includes the following options (NTSC):







Profiles


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My Toshiba laptop:
Windows XP Home SP2 / 512 MB / 40 GB
- Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE DVD
- Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3 SE
- Windows Movie Maker 2
- QuickTime Pro 6.5
- DivX 6 Create Bundle (Trial)

Regards,
J. Alberto

Store indefinitely
and place on DVD (future, I don't have DVD-Recorder)

What are you planning to do with the captured video: place on a DVD, post to the web, store indefinitely????

If you can afford the harddrive space, temperarily, i'd find something called huffyuv...it will produce a HUGE file, but then take another program (i'd recommend virtualdub for this, since it's a pretty easy process) Capture it to 720x480 if at all possible, and then compress with divx from there.......after you got the file in avi format from huffyuv, just open it in virtualdub, and set divx's compression to a quality level of 1 (instead of bitrate settings) and if you dont mind losing your computer's processing power for a while, set the quality setting to insane, this will create a file which is pretty much identical to the input...if the output filesize is too big, though, drop down to a quality of 2...i would'nt go below that though, or else your quality will degrade too much that it won't look very good if you decide to DVD it eventually someday. Also, if huffyuv takes up too much space, go with mjpg instead....set the quality to like 1 or 2 notches away from the highest, and that should give you a pretty good quality output......once again, i'd recommend 720x480 (those are standard DVD resolutions...at least in north america....)

Thanks whitejremiah,

I have a problem with that, now my laptop when I'm capturing at 720x480 (mpeg1,2,uncompressed AVI, or etc.), checking Window Task Manager my CPU is all the time 100%, so the video looks like it were 15 fps, very slow. I'll try with 640x480 and I'll tell you.

And before use huffyuv, I did try with uncompressed AVI, but the file was anormal huge, 1min like 700 MB (before compress). Is that what you mean with HUGE file (Will I get that with huffyuv?)? ...because each tape has full 120 min. You mean uncompressed and then compress each, but with this size I can fill more than 10 GB with just one tape, my PC will collapse .

Note: I have no more than 10 GB (for this) and I have 13 hours of video8.

Regards