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Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/19/06 15:39
"RS" wrote ...
> I'm having a problem choosing the correct video format for capturing
> video from my mini-DV camcorder to my computer.
>
> I am using Ulead Video Studio version 7 on Windows 2000. I have
> several capturing choices, but they result in either way too large a
> file size (as high as 200 MB per 1 second of video), or the quality is
> very bad. Here are the choices the software gives me:
>
> DV - Results in a gigantic file size
> Mpeg - File size also pretty large, video quality bad
> VCD - File size OK, but the video comes out "half-size"
> SVCD - The software will not let me select this (defaults to MPEG)
> DVD - Very large file size
> AVI - The software will not let me select this (defaults to DV)
> WMV - Very small file size, quality fair
>
> I am not burning to any media. I simply want to end up with a small,
> but quality file to place on my webserver for downloads. Could someone
> please point me in the right direction?
From your own characterizations, you could try WMV
at a bit less severe compression and hit your "sweet spot".
It does come down to a subjective tradeoff between size
and quality. And WMV is likely the most widely playable
codec on the WWW. (Except maybe for Flash, but that
is not nearly as easy/free to encode.)
["AVI" and "DV" are effectively identical in your context.
A "DV-AVI" file contains a bit-for-bit copy of what is on
your camcorder tape and is, by definition, the highest
quality you have available. But at the cost of 13.7G/hour]
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