2 Replies Latest reply: Jun 13, 2009 5:02 PM by John T Smith RSS

    Best way to compress

    Reese Richardson Community Member

      I bought a Canon SX1 IS which records in HD 1920 X 1020 in MOV format it is capable of recording on a 16 gig memory card or an hour of video. The question is how do you get 16 gigs on a 8.5 gig DVD or a two hour video.

       

      I have DivX codex and it will compress quite a bit but I've never been able to get the quality probably something to do with setting it up I'm pretty sure but what I get is what I'm going to call tearing.

       

      I'am probably asking a stupid question but this is the only place I know to go. Anyone got an answer or a program to do this with.

        • 1. Re: Best way to compress
          Ann Bens CommunityMVP

          I do not think Pro 2 can handle this.

          Run a file through Gspot so we can see what format it realy is (i am guessing on mp4)

          and place a screenshot here.

          http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

          • 2. Re: Best way to compress
            John T Smith CommunityMVP

            records in HD 1920 X 1020 in MOV format it is capable of recording on a 16 gig memory card or an hour of video. The question is how do you get 16 gigs on a 8.5 gig DVD or a two hour video

             

            First... a DVD is, by definition, SD (Standard Definiton) at:

            Compliant video to produce a DVD (per Encore forum)
            NTSC: 720x480 or 720x486 (or 704x480) at 29.97 or 23.976 fps
            PAL: 720x576 (or 704x576) at 25 fps
            Encode audio to AC3 or PCM for best player compatibility
            NOTE that 704-wide is "less good" per a recent message
            in that it may (will?) need to be re-transcoded by Encore

             

            Second... you author a DVD in a program like Encore (earlier than CS3 versions of Premiere had a limited authoring function) by converting to MPEG-2, which is then written to the DVD in a special format

             

            SD video uses about 13Gig per hour of video, which compresses down to fit on a 4.7Gig DVD when converted to MPEG-2

             

            Your file is going to have to be first converted to the DVD size, then compressed to MPEG-2