Movie Size

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My question has to do with the size of movies. To me, it seems that if you
want to burn a home video, it should be captured and burned in the highest
quality possible. When doing that, the file sizes are huge. I have never
actually put 2 hours worth of footage together of my kids, but from the
smaller sizes that I have played around with, it seems like the file size
would be bigger than the size of a dvd (not including the dvd menu items).
What format should I capture in to have a great quality 2 hour movie, but
have it small enough that it could be burnt to dvd?

Thanks
 
Somewhere, if you want two hours, you are going to have to compromise or
spend some serious money.
Always capture your movie as a dv-avi.
Edit etc and save as a dv-avi.
Then use your dvd authoring app to convert this file to a dvd compatible
mpeg2 file. This will make the file size much smaller, it will lose some
quality, but dvd players will only recognise this type of file, so there is
no getting away from it.
Now the difference comes in to this with the quality of the encoder you use,
spend some good money and get a good encoder and then fit 2 hours of video
on a disc and it will be perfectably watchable. 2 hours with a cheap encoder
and you'll see a difference. 1 hour with a cheap encoder will be ok, so 2
discs each of an hour or something lke canopus procoder/ulead dvd workshop2
with ac-3 support?

Graham
 
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