Capturing MPEG-2 In PD15 Question

kc_123

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Dec 23, 2016 09:58

These miniDV tapes are 60 min tapes. Must have recorded them in LP. After capturing them and importing them into the timeline, I have an hour and 38 minutes. I know I can cut the clips and make another project but that is a serious pain and if I can find another way that would be great. You can only put an hour on these DVD's I have DVD-R disks. Should I be capturing them more compressed? or should I compress them in the rendering ? I am rendering them as MPEG-2 as well.

Fixing the do some video8 capturing as well.

Thanks for the help !

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16GB DDR4 RAM
250GB SSD
2TB SATA
Sony Handycam CCD-TR96 Video8
Sony Handycam DCR-HC62 miniDV
Canon Vixia HF-R21 SDXHC

stevek

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Dec 23, 2016 13:35

Your player probably has double layer DVD player capabilities if you really don't want to do any editing or lose quality. DL are not all that expensive and are usually readily available.

Don't do any compression of the recorded videos. You should be recording at the highest quality (if possible). Use longer tapes if your camcorder will handle them.

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kc_123

Newbie Location: NC Joined: Dec 16, 2016 11:32 Messages: 20 Offline

Dec 23, 2016 16:59

Quote Your player probably has double layer DVD player capabilities if you really don't want to do any editing or lose quality. DL are not all that expensive and are usually readily available.

Don't do any compression of the recorded videos. You should be recording at the highest quality (if possible). Use longer tapes if your camcorder will handle them.

Thanks Steve !

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Dec 23. 2016 17:01

Win 10 64bit
i7 6700 @ 3.4Ghz
16GB DDR4 RAM
250GB SSD
2TB SATA
Sony Handycam CCD-TR96 Video8
Sony Handycam DCR-HC62 miniDV
Canon Vixia HF-R21 SDXHC

BarryTheCrab

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Dec 23, 2016 18:23

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