Hi,
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<BR>A friend of mine brought me his digital camera to put video on my PC so that he can edit it. I have a video in card and all the software. Only problem is, if I want to put the video on my hard drive, the lowest quality clip would put about 2 Minutes of footage on at 450Mb. How can I compress the video smaller without loosing the much needed quality. (File was in AVI Format)
Video to PC
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Video to PC
Sounds like the software that you are using to do the capturing is what is at fault. I would look into getting better capturing software...there are loads of titles about but I know Ulead have a very good product for capturing called Video Studio.
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<BR>Hope this helps
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<BR>Hope this helps
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Video to PC
Some capture boards offer hardware-based assistance for compressing a video stream during capture. You´ll need to click on that little word ´Help´ to see if yours has that capability. For what it´s worth, here are some basic guidelines:
<BR>Before capturing, you need to select your frame size & rate, also your audio format. The higher the quality- the bigger the file size BUT the higher the quality of capture, the better the final result will be. Preferably keep them the same. If you capture on a lower quality/frame size/audio format etc then make your final ´product´ at a different size & different audio format, you´re going to be disappointed with the results. Video can eat up space so my suggestion would be to capture your ´raw footage´ directly on to a CD, then to work off that - only storing the actual files you want to use on your hard drive, so that you don´t clutter up your hard drive with stuff you don´t need. Final word: If you´re going to make editing part of your future, get the biggest and best hard drive you can afford, ´cos Baby, ya gonna need it! Have fun!
<BR>PS to Cammie: You forgot to say ´There was a demo of Ulead on a recent PCFormat CD´ Thanks, ´Loskop´ it does come in handy for compressing to M-pegs!! <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_lol.gif">
<BR>Before capturing, you need to select your frame size & rate, also your audio format. The higher the quality- the bigger the file size BUT the higher the quality of capture, the better the final result will be. Preferably keep them the same. If you capture on a lower quality/frame size/audio format etc then make your final ´product´ at a different size & different audio format, you´re going to be disappointed with the results. Video can eat up space so my suggestion would be to capture your ´raw footage´ directly on to a CD, then to work off that - only storing the actual files you want to use on your hard drive, so that you don´t clutter up your hard drive with stuff you don´t need. Final word: If you´re going to make editing part of your future, get the biggest and best hard drive you can afford, ´cos Baby, ya gonna need it! Have fun!
<BR>PS to Cammie: You forgot to say ´There was a demo of Ulead on a recent PCFormat CD´ Thanks, ´Loskop´ it does come in handy for compressing to M-pegs!! <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_lol.gif">
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