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  SD rendering settings for viewing from PC

  Posted by Ben Mathew on October 30, 2008 at 4:05 am

  I’ve spent a couple of hours with a test video trying to find the ideal format for videos to save to my hard drive and watch on my PC. I am hoping to get some guidance here on what I should try as this can be quite time consuming. I’ve tried mpeg-2, wmv and some mp4 settings.

  Any suggestions on what is a good balance between video quality and file size for standard definition (miniDV) video from a camcorder? I am not interested in burning DVDs. I would like the rendered video to be as close in quality to the original captured AVI as possible. I would not like to have more than about 5 G per hour of video.

  Which format and settings do you suggest?

  Thanks!

  John Rofrano replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Rhoden

  October 30, 2008 at 7:15 am

  For what you have mentioned i would recommend rendering
  to the “Mpeg2 DVD NTSC” format for several reasons.

  Steve Rhoden
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  John Rofrano

  October 30, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  …and if you want the file size even smaller with no appreciable loss in quality use MPEG-4. (either the MainConcept or Sony AVC file type)

  ~jr

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