Sony Camcorder to HDD to MPEG-1,2,4

[bullion]

Dear All,
I am a newbie to DV world. I recently bought a Sony camcorder. I was able to move my 3 min. vedio from mini-DV to my HDD via Firewire. It's size is staggering 750MB and the format is AVI. Now what I want is some guidance into how can I convert this video to more manageable size something like 30-40MB.

Any pointers are appreciated.

[benbryant]

You can use VirtualDubMod and Koepi or Nic XviD codec to compress to XviD format or try the H264 using x264 and meGUI. Check them out from here:

http://www.koepi.org/xvid.shtml

http://www.x264.nl/

Regards

[bullion]

Thanks Dude!!!

[anonymez]

if it's interlaced (likely) it's best to deinterlace before the encoding process

[som1dies2nite]

Dear All,
I am a newbie to DV world. I recently bought a Sony camcorder. I was able to move my 3 min. vedio from mini-DV to my HDD via Firewire. It's size is staggering 750MB and the format is AVI. Now what I want is some guidance into how can I convert this video to more manageable size something like 30-40MB.

Any pointers are appreciated.

What program did you use to tranfer video? I have a dcr-hc46 and used windows movie maker to capture but it saves it as wmv file.