stevenator65 -
Used your Fairuse tutorial before - it was EXcellent ! ! !
Thank you for writing that up!!!!!
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Originally Posted by saint-francis
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How did you manage to get a 22 gig file for one movie? This is the question to ask. If you managed to squash 22 gig into 800 meg the quality loss must be astounding. I think that what you should first do is try to capture the video again. If worse comes to worse get a dvd copy of it from the video reantal place down the road and rip that. Then you'll end up with a 4 gig file and you can get it pretty small before it will look bad on a screen as small as the ones on a pda.
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StFrancis --
The original movie was taped on VHS years ago. I found a way to connect the VCR to my Sony HandyCam through analog connections in the base. I then fed the camera output through a firewire to my PC. Windows Movie Maker was the default program that popped up upon connection, so that is what I used for the capture. The result was an AVI file the size I reported.
I used the "Digital Device Format DV-AVI" check box to get an AVI instead of WMV file. Specs on the capture are :
File Type: Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)
Bit Rate: 25.0 Mbps
Display Size: 720 x 480 pixels
Frames per Second: 30
Video Format: NTSC
Each Minute of Video saved with this setting will consume 178 MB
(which is where the file got so big???)
Here is the break-down that VirtualDub gives on the file:
avi.JPG
Using FairUse, VitualDub and Super I've finally gotten the size down to 196MB, but the video quality could be better. It looks excellent at the 800MB size, but below that (anywhere in the 150 to 400MB size) I start getting a lot of (mainly white) horizontal spikes (interlacing?) during scene changes and a little fuzziness of the overall video. Sound is excellent even on the smaller file size....