From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Jan 2 12:19:37 2010 Message-ID: <4B3F7F89.8090109@atari-source.org> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:16:57 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] File sizes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 1/2/10 5:53 AM, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote: > I am just experimenting with firewire capture of my diving videos > from DVCAM tapes. Using full resolution they are big files. Maybe > there is another video format that the files can be saved in that > requires less space using better compression. > > I am using full PAL resolution at the moment and they aren't even > HiDef videos ! > > The straight videos from a mini dv cam are basically uncompressed so nearly anything is better. I prefer H264 but H264 DV is resource intensive on a modern PC to playback let alone an atari. I would use maybe Xvid. I wouldn't touch them if you plan to edit them, add transitions, etc. But if they are in their final format, a high bitrate xvid shouldn't be too annoying. Thanks, Mark