Best way to capture

[Catsnkites]

I captured several hour long tapes and I'm in the process of editting them to make a year end DVD to send to family.

 

When I captured them, I just let the Media Import settings stay where they were ... which was AVI DV format and "Normal".

 

After reading through some posts, I wonder now if I should have used the MPEG-2 format...

 

Should I re-capture my footage?

 

What's the difference?

 

Thank you!

 

Susie

[grandpabruce]

I captured several hour long tapes and I'm in the process of editting them to make a year end DVD to send to family.

 

When I captured them, I just let the Media Import settings stay where they were ... which was AVI DV format and "Normal".

 

After reading through some posts, I wonder now if I should have used the MPEG-2 format...

 

Should I re-capture my footage?

 

What's the difference?

 

Thank you!

 

Susie

 

You are far better off capturing in .avi mode. It is less compressed than mpeg2, but it takes up more room. The quality is better, and it is faster editing in VideoWave than an .mpeg2 file.

[Beerman]

You are far better off capturing in .avi mode. It is less compressed than mpeg2, but it takes up more room. The quality is better, and it is faster editing in VideoWave than an .mpeg2 file.

I agree and would only capture to mpeg if I was going to go right into making a DVD. You'll end up with better quality when doing edits using an avi file.

You also might benefit by capturing in smaller chunks instead of 1 or 2 large files. Easier to work with and may help with avoiding audio sync issues.