Hi I have a Sony DV Digital Handycam camcorder, and I would like to put my files on dvd. When I use windows movie maker to copy the files to my harddrive, I tend to use DV-AVI format. That way I am sure to not lose any quality. On the other hand, I am afraid that I might be recording at a too high resolution. I am not sure that the camcorder actually records at 25MB/s anyway, so why should I save at that? Anyway, I would like to retain the quality of DV-AVI but compress the video. Currently, a single 40 Minute video file is an amazing 7 Gigabytes! Can I use divx or xvid or something to keep the quality and compress it (at least so that I can fit it on a dvd disc)? Thanks Zach
I just got finished loading my DV tapes to DVD. I imported them into pinacle and burned them to a DVD. They turned out very well! Pinnacle cost me about 100 bucks. By the way, 60 minutes of video on a regular DVD.
No loss of quality or "droped frames". Most of the videos were a little less than 60 minutes and fit nicely on a dvd. I thought it worked very well. I will go back later and put them together in edited home movies. I am currently building a video from this past year. Something I really enjoy. Good luck.
i used to copy it to HD then burn, now i bought a standalone dvd recorder (you can get one for about $140 now!) and i just plug my cam into the dvd recorder, hit record and it burns it right to disk with no loss of quality, extra time spent, or conversion hassles.
Go for pinnacle studio, currently i guess version 9.3 is d latest if im not mistaken... i agree with psuchewinner's sugestion
Pinnacle is up to about 10.5 now. My neighbor uses adobe premeire pro and he took an old VHS and put it on DVD for me. He has a REALLY high powered computer. Cost him somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 g's.