I've begun to concern with video editing very recently after I bought my DVB card. My problem is my recordings are in mpg format and they fill very large disk spaces because some TV channels broadcast with a very high quality. For example a few minutes ago I recorded a video music clip which has 3 minutes 15 seconds of length but it's 126mb because the channel I made the recording is in DVD quality. So what should I do, to which format I should convert my videos in order to keep the quality high and disk space low. Sometimes I see recordings of others which have very high quality and which are very small in file size. In your answers please give me detailed information for the programs you advice and codecs needed. Thank you so much
Well if you want to eventually make DVD"s out of these Files then you should keep them in the Format that they are in as DVD uses the Mpeg-2 format which is the same as your Files.... If you just want to Shrink the Files down to save space and will either be Viewing on your PC or Archiveing to Disk then i would Suggest useing the XviD Format or one of the Other Mpeg-4 Compression formats like DivX...I actually believe XviD is one of the Better Codecs out there for this Sort of Thing and it is also a freeware Codec so you can Find it in the Software section of this web site....You can probably expect you compress your Files to 25% there size without much Visual Loss in Quality.... As for what Program to use to convert your Mpeg-2 files to XviD you can use pretty much any Video editing program or Video encodeing program that uses Codecs found on your System, You could even use something like "Virtual-Dub-Mpeg-2" or "Tmpgenc" which has an export to AVI option.... You can download Virtual-Dub-Mpeg-2 here: Virtual-Dub-Mpeg2 http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/VirtualDub-MPEG2.zip If your Files have AC3 audio you will also need to install this: AC3ACM Decompressor http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/AC3ACM/AC3ACM.zip There are also many tools in the software section that should be able to help you and you can download the XviD Codec there.... Cheers
