[Sol Rosenberg]

I have a Sony DCR-DVD105. It records on small DVD's (not MiniDV tape). When I import video from it, which is the highest quality format, MPEG or DivX? I will be using the video clips to build movies in MYDVD.

The last time I did this, the movies I imported (I think with MPEG) turned out all shakey looking for the most part, but would sometimes be crystal clear and non-shakey (even within the same clip the quality would switch from shakey to crystal clear). The small DVD's from the camera look fine when I just play them direct on my set top DVD player, the problem seems to arise with the transfer.

[Larry]

cbresett@sd35.bc.ca, on Sep 22 2006, 12:54 PM, said:

I have a Sony DCR-DVD105. It records on small DVD's (not MiniDV tape). When I import video from it, which is the highest quality format, MPEG or DivX? I will be using the video clips to build movies in MYDVD.

The last time I did this, the movies I imported (I think with MPEG) turned out all shakey looking for the most part, but would sometimes be crystal clear and non-shakey (even within the same clip the quality would switch from shakey to crystal clear). The small DVD's from the camera look fine when I just play them direct on my set top DVD player, the problem seems to arise with the transfer.

My siggestion would be stick with mpeg2, as that should actually be doing a one to one import. That should be what your mini discs are recording in already.
Importing into DivX will highly compress it, then when you burn from MyDVd it will have to uncompress it and convert it back to mpeg2 anyway.