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Where are the Video Capture Quality/Size Settings?
Hello again
By default Vegas is capturing in AVI at max quality. Thing is, the video is coming from a Hi8 camcorder and.. well.. I don’t think I need to capture at that high of quality do I? I mean 5 min of capture results in 875MB file!!
So..
1. What quality level/settings do you all recommend to capture hi8 video for DVD burning
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2. Where are the capture quality/format settings located?
Thanks!
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I guess I am really confused at this point (doh). I captured 6min of video and the file size is 1.5GB. At this rate, I will only be able to get 18 min of video on a DVD. How can this be? I should be able to get at least an hour or more on a DVD.. shouldn’t I?
Someone please break this down for me 🙂
Thanks
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The video on DVD is MPEG2 format, which takes up far less space than DV avi.
Capture in Vegas is in fact a transfer of digital information, so there is no quality variation – you do this later when you render to the required format, whether it is for tape, DVD or web streaming etc.
13 Gb per hour is the normal amount of space required for DV video – even though your material started as Hi 8, there is no point on compromising its quality at capture time.
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Thank you, Peter. I appreciate the explanation.
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how much footage (minutes) will generally fit on a DVD (mpg2)?
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At full quality you can get 60 to 90 mins easily, depending on the complexity of menus etc, but it is possible to get more than 2 hours by reducing the bitrate.
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When I burn DV to DVD, I’m compressing to MPG2, correct? So let’s say down the road I want to assemble a montage from several different DVD’s I have burned. When I extract the MPG2 files (?) from the DVDs and assemble the ontage, and then reburn the compilation, will I lose quality?
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You capture DV-AVI. This is approx 13Gig/hour.
When finished editing, you render to MPEG2 and use a DVD authoring program to prepare and burn the DVD. You can easily get up to 2 hours. Please take a look at my newsletters – vol 1 #7 and one of the most recent issues talk about rendering to MPEG2 and going from Vegas to DVDA to make a DVD.
You do NOT want to pull video back off the DVD for additional editing. Instead, stick with the full quality file – the DV-AVI file – for your editing. If you need to store this for awhile then hard drives are cheap. It’s well worth sticking with the DV-AVI version for editing.
Edward Troxel
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OK just the advice I was seeking. Thanks much for your time.
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The general advice to use the original quality is correct 🙂
However, to answer your question about pulling off segments from your DVD’s and assembling a montage — you can do so without loss in the quality on those DVD’s as long as you do not modify the segments in some way that would force a re-render of the videos…
Regards,
George
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