First Movie

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I imported an old home movie from VHS tape. After editing, it is 1 hr. 16
min. long. Some of the video has jerky motion. What caused this? I saved
it to my hard disk in DV-AVI. I couldn't believe it when it saved at over
14GB. Can a DVD program reduce this to one DVD disk? I need some education
here.
 
Not sure on the jerky motion, can you describe in better detail? or how did
you capture from the vhs to the pc? dv-avi files are 13gb per hour and when
you use your dvd authoring programme then this will endcode the files to
mpeg2. Normally at the best quality option in most cheaper programmes you
can fit an hour on, so depending on which app you have you may need to
choose a lower quality option which will mean poorer picture, edit out a
little, or use another app. Which app do you have?

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
Laird of Glencairn
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com
 
I imported the movie through WMM2 from VHS from my camcorder. The file was a
Windows Media Audio/Video file. The "jerkiness" apparently occurred in the
import. When I say "jerky", I mean to say that some frames seem to freeze up
momentarily. I would like to have some advice on this.
 
Could you nlet us have the equipment used, what analogue capture device you
used and the specs of the pc. ANalogue capture is very intensive and low
spec pc's can have trouble, also full hdd, fragmented hdd, other apps
running can all lead to problems such as you have had.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
Laird of Glencairn
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com
 
My computer is a Pentium4, 2.6 GHz, running Windows XP. At the time of
capture from my camcorder, I had 256 MB of memory. I have since doubled that
to 512. Thanks
 
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