I'm not really a technical junkie but just want some advice on the best
format to use. I want to copy from ordinary video tapes and 8mm camcorder
tape onto the PC and then onto CD/DVD. Ideally I would like one common
format that will play on both PC and on my DVD player. Both audio and video
quality are important and for file size I would prefer a 3 minute clip to be
nearer 60-70Mb than 600-700! I have MM2 and VCDEasy.

Use MPEG2 format. One hour movie should be about 4 GB. I usally import my DV
avi files into my PC and then edit them and render a MPEG2 file for DVD
burning and then delete the original avi file.

"petegut" wrote:

> I'm not really a technical junkie but just want some advice on the best
> format to use. I want to copy from ordinary video tapes and 8mm camcorder
> tape onto the PC and then onto CD/DVD. Ideally I would like one common
> format that will play on both PC and on my DVD player. Both audio and video
> quality are important and for file size I would prefer a 3 minute clip to be
> nearer 60-70Mb than 600-700! I have MM2 and VCDEasy.

See an overview of the steps involved inmaking DVD Video using MM2:
www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm


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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker



"petegut" <petegut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm not really a technical junkie but just want some advice on the best
> format to use. I want to copy from ordinary video tapes and 8mm camcorder
> tape onto the PC and then onto CD/DVD. Ideally I would like one common
> format that will play on both PC and on my DVD player. Both audio and
> video
> quality are important and for file size I would prefer a 3 minute clip to
> be
> nearer 60-70Mb than 600-700! I have MM2 and VCDEasy.