My sister got a digital video camera for christmas and she's starting to rip and and edit movies. She likes making music videos and I was looking at the size of the movies and for a 3 minute long movie the thing is 1.5 gigs. What program would I use to convert it to a smaller file. Thanks. Also how would I make the quality of the video better? The movie is like 1.5gigs but I would have to say the video quality is s**tty. I havn't looked at the camera yet but should I be able to make the quality better through the camera? Thanks again.
Well, you could use Gordian Knot Rip-pack (not on this site anymore) to make the movies into something like DivX or XviD, which are of good quality. I think the reason it looks "sh*ty" is because they are not deinterlaced yet. Do they look bad because they have what looks kind of like tearing from left to right when you play it back? A 3 min vid using XviD could shrink it down to under 20-60MB with good results.
I know it seems big, but you must understand how real-time capture works. Captured files are always huge, and with any luck the quality will be good. If not good, then the capture was not huge enough! See, the capture must throw enough bits at the project to record everything in real-time, no matter how complex & fast-moving. Then later, after the fact, you can do 2-pass (or 3-pass) compressions that will make a manageable filesize. Max-out the capture bitrate = filesize. If it's maxed-out, that's all you can do... So try to make the capture as huge as possible, then worry about compressing it after the fact, Regards
