Hi,
I got 4 DV AVI files, each 13GB in size, hogging my disk.
These are videos of my 7 months old baby, from birth till now, so they are really dear to me.
I want to keep the videos at best possible quality. However, CDs are all I can afford . I also need to process the videos ASAP (I don't have any backups).
I already figured I can split the videos to 15-20 minutes long clips, and fit each into a CD, to get better quality. But the video formats and codecs are still a big mystery to me, no matter how much I read (or perhaps because I read too much). In the future I want to edit and join the clips, add music and sound, to produce my home movies, burn them to DVDs. So the clips I want to burn to the CDs must be at "Master" quality. And I guess not all formats and codecs are re-editable as others.
I used Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 to capture the digital video to my disk. I can edit the movie with it, but it allows me to save the clips only in .WMV format (good?). I heard of Mpeg 2, DivX, Xvid, and more, but I have no clue as for what's best for what I need .
Pleeeeeease help with a detailed advice!
Again, the things i need:
1. Best video quality for 20-minute “Master†CDs,
2. “Master†clips (from CD) must be in a format I can edit later (add sound, join and clip other videos),
3. Later, burn to DVD
Thank you,
Zoe
I got 4 DV AVI files, each 13GB in size, hogging my disk.
These are videos of my 7 months old baby, from birth till now, so they are really dear to me.
I want to keep the videos at best possible quality. However, CDs are all I can afford . I also need to process the videos ASAP (I don't have any backups).
I already figured I can split the videos to 15-20 minutes long clips, and fit each into a CD, to get better quality. But the video formats and codecs are still a big mystery to me, no matter how much I read (or perhaps because I read too much). In the future I want to edit and join the clips, add music and sound, to produce my home movies, burn them to DVDs. So the clips I want to burn to the CDs must be at "Master" quality. And I guess not all formats and codecs are re-editable as others.
I used Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 to capture the digital video to my disk. I can edit the movie with it, but it allows me to save the clips only in .WMV format (good?). I heard of Mpeg 2, DivX, Xvid, and more, but I have no clue as for what's best for what I need .
Pleeeeeease help with a detailed advice!
Again, the things i need:
1. Best video quality for 20-minute “Master†CDs,
2. “Master†clips (from CD) must be in a format I can edit later (add sound, join and clip other videos),
3. Later, burn to DVD
Thank you,
Zoe
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