--- Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:
On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Leo Mauler wrote:
A friend of mine recently converted my 3 hour wedding video from VHS to AVI for me. I've trimmed what I could, but the remaining video is still two and one-half hours long.
Why are you doing VHS->"AVI"->MPEG-2? Unless your AVI is raw uncompressed video (hundreds of GB, IIRC), doing this is going to lose quite a significant bit of quality.
I received it as AVI (XviD video, MP3 audio). Frankly I don't really care about the final quality as long as the human eye can be fooled into thinking that it looks nice on a conventional television. That is, a television which is not widescreen, and can be described *without* using the numbers 720 or 1080.
The entire point is that the video file must become a conventional DVD MPEG2 file, recordable onto a conventional DVD, playable on a conventional DVD player, and viewable on a conventional TV. Then it will be mailed out to my relatives, some of whom do not own computers but do own DVD players.
Avidemux works great for simple editing of the file into multiple clips, which in turn will be converted into DVD MPEG2 files suitable for splicing together in a DVD menu created by DVDStyler. At least, this is my intention.
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