What's the best way to make divx from your dv camera

[jtf]

I was wondering what's the best way to make divx from my dv camera movies i made.
Should i first capture it as avi and then decode it in divx?
what's the best ways (or fastest way)

I just do it for myself, don't need to be super quality movies
Just need to be fast and good quality (beside i don't have a big harddisk about 6 gigabyte free and an hour of movie a tape) to copy on cd

What's the software recommended?

Thanx in advance

[setarip]

"Should i first capture it as avi and then decode it in divx?
what's the best ways (or fastest way)"

If you know how to capture it to your PC as an (uncompressed) .AVI file, and you have a DivX codec installed on your system, load the file into VirtualDub, from the "Video" dropdown select "Compression" and select the Divx codec of your choice. From "Audio" dropdown select "Full Processing Mode" and go through the various line items ("Conversion", "Compression" - no need to bother with "Interleaving", the default settings for that are fine for your purposes).

Then, from the "Files" dropdown, select "Save As .AVI" and give your new DivX-to-be file a name!

Let us know of your success ;>}

[Yannis]

I agree with setarip; VirtualDub is great; play with the settings of DivX4 & your Audio Codec though in order to get what you wish.

One thing to say only; just beware of the frame-dropping. When I use VirtualDub I get many frames dropped, despite my fast (Asus A7V266E, XP1700+, 512GB) machine with an ATA100 HD. Premiere 6 does not drop a frame even on my older ATA66 HD.

From what I have read many people prefer Premiere 6 to capture from ieee1394 devices.