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Capture at 7000-8000 onto your hard disk.
Use DVDMF (I havd DVDMF3) set at 8.5Gig (dual layer) in preferences for disk size.
Don't burn a dvd ("Record to Disc") but, rather, "Create a DVD Folder" under Advanced options.
Use DVDShrink 3.2 to Create another folder ( compressed to standard DVD) which then can then be used to burn your DVD using "Copy Disk" from the DVDMF3 launcher.
This process doesn't use menus.
The process can add up to an hour of additional time but I think it is worth it.
DVD Shrink is Freeware available for download on the internet at
http://www.dvdshrink.org/
Despite the comments below, you don't need a DVD to use shrink. I am backing up hundreds of VHS tapes that my wife and I have collected over the last 30 years which are losing quality due to the loss of oxide.
Create Better Quality Captures
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geobek
Create Better Quality Captures
Last edited by geobek on Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:23 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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heinz-oz
What do you mean, below 7000 kbps is lossy??? What is your source video? I have created many a DVD from DV avi source material and challenge anybody to show me where I have used 7000 or 4700 kbps. what are you using to capture? Your system may not be up for the task of capturing real time mpeg. Furthermore, you will not be able to fit any 2 hour video with a data rate of 7000 kbps on a standard 4.7GB DVD, it doesn't fit. All that shrink does, and it does it well, is to reduce the bitrate to make it fit. How does that tally with your assertion that anything below 7000 kbps is crap? Also, to use shrink, you have to have a DVD in the first place. Are you copying DVD's? Why would you want to capture a DVD to convert it to DVD??? Sorry, but you lost me somewhere.
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geobek
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maddrummer3301
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Many people use that same method and feel the quality is better.
The program Nero NeroVision Express 3 is a similar program except
it works with the whole dvd structure (vob files).
Have you considered using a dvd recorder like "Panasonic" etc.
They use filters to cleanup the video before compressing it to mpeg2 format.
You can then import the dvd's for editing and work on the mpeg2 files
directly using VS9 or MF3/4.
One thing I've seen with shrinking the mpeg2 files without properly
re-rendering them is they aren't editable anymore.
I would create dvd folders of a VHS tape recorded at the highest
possible dvd bit-rate and shrink it down to fit on a 4.370 gig disk.
Then import the dvd into VideoStudio or MovieFactory or other
software (Nero's video software etc).
None of these programs liked working with those mpeg2 files that
had been shrunk.
Panasonic and Sony dvd recorders are nice.
Panasonic also has a "Flexible Recording Mode" which is the same as
"Fit To Disk".
Hope this helps,
MD
The program Nero NeroVision Express 3 is a similar program except
it works with the whole dvd structure (vob files).
Have you considered using a dvd recorder like "Panasonic" etc.
They use filters to cleanup the video before compressing it to mpeg2 format.
You can then import the dvd's for editing and work on the mpeg2 files
directly using VS9 or MF3/4.
One thing I've seen with shrinking the mpeg2 files without properly
re-rendering them is they aren't editable anymore.
I would create dvd folders of a VHS tape recorded at the highest
possible dvd bit-rate and shrink it down to fit on a 4.370 gig disk.
Then import the dvd into VideoStudio or MovieFactory or other
software (Nero's video software etc).
None of these programs liked working with those mpeg2 files that
had been shrunk.
Panasonic and Sony dvd recorders are nice.
Panasonic also has a "Flexible Recording Mode" which is the same as
"Fit To Disk".
Hope this helps,
MD