Recording a football game
 

My nephew plays little league footbal, and I just got a camcorder to tape it. What I wanted to do is tape it, save it to my computer, and make a copy for each player. I have a couple of questions. I recorded only 20 min of video, and the file was already at 3 gigs. What is the best way to reduce the size, and go about doing this. I have the choice of Nero to make a dvd, or I could use windows movie maker. I am not sure the best way to do this, and any help would be sooo awesome. thanks in advance


chance

What is the file type of the outputted movie? If it's avi, your best bet is DIVX or XVID -- I believe that both charge for their encoder, however.

DIVX is very powerful though, and can take 3-7GB and chop it down to enough to fit on a CD..

Thanks for the info, I will take a look at that. Any other suggestions would be great.

If your going to put it on dvd you probably don't want it in divx or xvid format. For DVD I'd stick with dvd compliant MPEG-2. Not sure what programs your using but I'd use "tmpgenc" to encode it to a dvd compliant MPEG-2, doing that most certainly will reduce the size to something much better/smaller.