What is an Ideal MBPS rate

[Guest]

I am gathering video from a sony handycam and use hi-8 tapes to record. I want to save this movies in the best possible format but do not want to waste space.

There is a large gap in video quality from 2.1 mbps to 30.0 mbps. What is an option if I want to burn this video to DVD and have it as good as the quality is coming out of the camera?

I am running out of back-up space fast and need a solution.

Thanks

 

[Rehan]

In my opinion for home movies anything more than 5Mbps should require real
justification...

Using TMPGenc I first try the max: 2.5 Mbps vbr with 2.1Mbps as average,
which works more often than not. This allows me to burn a cDVD/miniDVD on a
normal CD. Dvd players which can handle minidvd would still object on higher
bitrates as reading from cd media is not fast enough to support that.

 

[John Kelly]

Hello there

The default settings in my program DVD Complete from Dazzle are 8Mbps
maximum, 7 Mbps average and 6.5Mbps minimum. That results in a quite
acceptable quality. I did once play a DVD I had made and compared it to the
image from the camera played directly to DVD, occasionally I thought the DVD
picture was sometimes below par, and where there was something moving quite
fast the camera image sometimes was not so good and yet the DVD looked
better. I don't know enough to explain why that would be.

I have experimented with the settings above and can't say that I
improved anything so I went back to the defaults as mentioned above.

Hope that helps a little

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

I am gathering video from a sony handycam and use hi-8 tapes to record. I

want to save this movies in the best possible format but do not want to
waste space.

There is a large gap in video quality from 2.1 mbps to 30.0 mbps. What is

an option if I want to burn this video to DVD and have it as good as the
quality is coming out of the camera?