laury68
join:2003-11-29
Winter Springs, FL
| compress movie from cable tv?
I was wondering,by hooking up my canon digital camcorder
to the cable box, recording a movie to mini dv, is it
possible to compress it small enough to fit it on a dvd-r?
i have a g4, using os9 and working with imovie and
quicktime pro.however , im not familiar with the different
compression choices given. ive tried a few. the problem is
it takes forever to achieve results.no luck so far. has
anyone tried this? any and all help appreciated.
Laury
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leXicon5
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join:2000-12-27
Saint Louis, MO
1 edit | Well...a DVD-R hold about 4.3 Gig.....DV is a Gig for every 5 minutes.
You can get about 1:30 onto a DVD-R Disc from iMovie but it is heavily compressed by iMovie and iDVD during the preparation process. If the movie is 2 hours.....cut out about 30 minutes of commercials....if there are any....you might be able to get it on there....1;30 is all that iDVD can fit to one disc AFAIK....I have not used the latest iteration of iDVD...I think time is the key, not movie size as far as compression is concerned. Once you step over the 60 minute mark, iDVD compresses the crap out of it.
If it is a really cool movie and you don't want to try to cut the crap out of it to fit...split it to 2 discs....they are cheap enough now....
I assume the G4 is not close enough to the TV or Cable box to forego the recording to the tape....?
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laury68
join:2003-11-29
Winter Springs, FL
| yeah i believe i ve tried splitting the movie with imovie.
its been about 6 months since ive tried it.(just got a dvr
so id thought id use it to my benefit,backing up movies.)
im going to give it a shot again, hopefully with better luck. and you r correct about the comp and tv being apart, thanks for replying. laury |
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leXicon5
Pelosi, SHUT YOUR Fing Pie Hole
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join:2000-12-27
Saint Louis, MO
| said by laury68  :
yeah i believe i ve tried splitting the movie with imovie.
its been about 6 months since ive tried it.(just got a dvr
so id thought id use it to my benefit,backing up movies.)
im going to give it a shot again, hopefully with better luck. and you r correct about the comp and tv being apart, thanks for replying. laury
does the Mac have a built-in DVD-R or did you purchase an external burner?
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laury68
join:2003-11-29
Winter Springs, FL | im sorry about taking so long to reply.(holidays)
i bought an internal and had it put in. its the same though.
(pioneer 105) |
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russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA
| reply to laury68
MPEG-4 gets better quality than MPEG-1 and may let you fit it on DVD. The catch is that MPEG-4 won't play on DVD players, you'd be stuck playing it on your computer. At least until MPEG-4 DVD players come out. Also there's no simple software to do it, it would be multiple steps. |
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