capturing hi 8 through firewire

stannmaple · Post by **stannmaple** » Sat May 27, 2006 12:02 pm

Thanks for the help. I would imagine, to use DVD shrink, I would burn the disk image to the harddrive and then use Shrink to actually burn to DVD assuming the image is too large? Thanks again.
Dann

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:16 pm

Whilst DVD Shrink is good at what it does it will reduce the video quality slightly. The more that DVD Shrink "shrinks" the more the quality will deteriorate. It is therefore better to try and use either a bit rate calculator or one of the recommended settings in this post
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 6707#56707

If you're only a small amount out then you can finish off the job with DVD Shrink.

stannmaple · Post by **stannmaple** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:35 pm

Great! Thanks for the help. I will go that route. A good way to see if it will fit on the DVD though is to burn it to the harddrive first correct? Then I don't waste all the time while it is rendering only to find it won't fit on my DVD? Thanks again for the help.
Dann

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:52 pm

And as a footnote to Shrink, stannmaple, you mentioned burning the 'disk image to the harddrive'. AFAIK, DVDShrink will use either the hard disc DVD itself or else only the DVD folder (Video_TS) on the hard disk. It cannot see a disk image file (i.e. ISO). So you would need to select 'Create DVD folders' in the burning module, rather than 'Create Disk Image' if you took the Shrink route. But someone will correct me if I am wrong.