Topic: DV capture question

[yousef]

I've got about two hours of DV footage that I want to get onto my hard drive for editing etc. I'm trying to use Windows Movie Maker's capture function but I'm a little unsure which setting to use.

The default DV-AVI setting runs at 178MB per minute, which seems a little excessive to me. My home DVD recorder's SP setting will fit two hours of video on a 4.7GB DVD and the quality is just fine for my purposes so I'd like to be capturing somewhere around that level.

But how to do this? WMM has settings like "Video for Pocket PC", "Video for local playback" and all sorts of weird and wonderful things but nothing that seems to work out at the ca.40MB per minute that I'm looking for.

As you can probably tell, I have absolutely no idea about the video side of things - can anyone give me some advice?

[fanofthemule]

When you capture the video it makes AVI files, which are roughly 13 gb per hour of video. 

After you have captured the video, you will need to render it.  When you render the video, you will be able to change the bitrate settings to fit the video on one dvd.

[yousef]

Thanks for the reply - looks like I'll need to clear some space on my hard drive...