Video Editing help needed..

[Tripitz]

I have a WinFast TV Tuner and I've been recording in MPG2 "Optimal" quality, which is pretty decent. Unfortunately, the file sizes are tremendous. I've sampled some online TV recordings and they usually come in at 360mb for about a 42 minute show. I'm coming in at 2 GB for a 60 minute show. The quality is definitely the same. I've played around with the lower quality recording settings and it stunk (definitely worse than the downloaded stuff I've sampled).

What do I need to reduce the file size?

What software can I use to get rid of commercials, etc? I've tried the Ulead software and thought it was pretty weak. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[russ_watters]

Re-encode with divx.

[Darkman]

Originally posted by russ_watters
Re-encode with divx.

Can i also ask you something?

I have been capturing video from my digital camcorder, it is a home video with you know lot of movement in it and it seems that when there are scenes with movement the video gets a lot of jaggies.

The people in the video get a lot of jaggies, i tried with different codecs but it has no use.

Do you know how i can eliminate this problem?

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by Darkman


Can i also ask you something?

I have been capturing video from my digital camcorder, it is a home video with you know lot of movement in it and it seems that when there are scenes with movement the video gets a lot of jaggies.

The people in the video get a lot of jaggies, i tried with different codecs but it has no use.

Do you know how i can eliminate this problem?

About the only way to get rid of artifacts is higher encoding rate. When you first capture from the camcorder it should be in a pretty high quality - mpeg 2 @ >8 megabits/sec. When you re-encode with divx, you can adjust motion settings to compensate (there is even a sports mode).