Posted by RS on 10/19/06 13:33

Hi,
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?

Thank you very much!

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