video editing question

[Chris]

i am messing around with my dvd camera
and a 5 minute video is 69 megs

what can I do to lower the file size but not the quality?

[Chris]

i hate trying to learn new shit

[mitchmako]

I would just capture at that rate and then re-render into wmv format and them store the original on an external drive, dvd or delete it. I use Vegas Video 6 for this btw.

69 megs seems awfully small btw... I captured from my HiDef cam and it was 3 GB for around 10 minutes I think... 69 megs is nothing when dealing with video.

[RawAlex]

Standard DV format (regular) runs upwards to 13 gig an hour. 10 minutes for 69 meg is pretty compressed to start with.

HD is huge...

Alex

[wedouglas]

That isn't very large to begin with. Video data gets huge when uncompressed.

[donross]

yeah, i think.. you'll just have to encode it in wmv format.. i use sony vegas 6 for that..

[Chris]

hrmm alright
i guess 69 megs it is lol