Recording a football game - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

chance · 10-07-2005, 12:43 PM

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

Jinn · 10-07-2005, 12:50 PM

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..

chance · 10-07-2005, 12:59 PM

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

catback · 10-11-2005, 05:20 AM

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.

10-07-2005, 12:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
chance Tilted	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 __________________ be nice to nice people

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Jinn Lover - Protector - Teacher Location: Seattle, WA	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.. __________________ "I'm typing on a computer of science, which is being sent by science wires to a little science server where you can access it. I'm not typing on a computer of philosophy or religion or whatever other thing you think can be used to understand the universe because they're a poor substitute in the role of understanding the universe which exists independent from ourselves." - Willravel

10-07-2005, 12:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
chance Tilted	Thanks for the info, I will take a look at that. Any other suggestions would be great. __________________ be nice to nice people

10-11-2005, 05:20 AM	#4 (permalink)
catback Psycho Location: North America	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.