[jwaldrop]

You guys were really helpful previously as I was trying to learn to backup DVD's...almost all of my efforts are now successes. New problem now, though. I'd appreciate your ideas.

System: HP 1.7, 70 gig HD, 1024 mg RAM, Liteon EZ Dub DVD burner.

In trying to back up a football game I recorded on my DVR to a DVD (to clear the 4 hrs of space on the DVR) I got the bright idea to record it to my Sony DV handicam, then import to EMC 8. Well, that all went very smoothly (with 1 hr of video on the tape to play with). The 1 hour file was captured to an AVI file in My Videos, but it took 12.3 gig of HD space. When I used My DVD to burn, it took about 6 hours to encode, and the picture was OK, but not great. I knew from what I had read that encoding should take about twice as long as the video length (I was expecting 2 hours), but this took 6 times as long. I had disabled all background programs, screensavers, etc.

Any ideas on speeding up this process and use less hard drive space? Should I have tried to make it an mpeg2 file or would that have made for even less video quality? Would saving this as an iso file have worked better?

Thanks in advance for your help.

This post has been edited by jwaldrop: 19 October 2006 - 04:53 PM

[cdanteek]

Seems you did everything OK!
The 1.7 is old and slow. A 3.0 cpu or larger might do 2 to 3 hrs. Just the way it is,

cdanteek