just need a quick answer

Dazedandconfused · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2005, 07:46 PM

using pinnacle studio 9.4.3 SE, which format would be better to capture video in: mpg (high quality, dvd) or avi (best)???? thanx

seymore · #2 (**permalink**) 07-23-2005, 09:22 PM

AVI because it's uncompressed, therefore no or little loss of quality. It will take up more space though.

Dazedandconfused · #3 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005, 12:13 AM

thanx!

Marc Peters · #4 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005, 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by seymore

AVI because it's uncompressed, therefore no or little loss of quality. It will take up more space though.

The term "AVI" is really a generic term used to describe the container of a Windows video file. The extension AVI can mean the video is encoded with any manor of codec: from highly compressed MPEG4 codecs such as DivX, to the low compression of DV.

Make sure you choose a codec with a low compression ratio.

Dazedandconfused · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005, 04:36 AM

well I'n knew to all of this. Just trying to capture a friends wedding vid from a sony high-8 camcorder, so I want the best setting as possible.......without any audio syncing problems

seymore · #6 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005, 09:14 AM

I would just go for the 'best' setting on Pinnacle capture then, as that seems to give the best quality when you're not using a dv tape. I think that the best setting uses no compression or, at the most, very low compression.

Dazedandconfused · #7 (**permalink**) 07-24-2005, 01:44 PM

"well I'm new to..."

don't have twins if you want sleep and expect to be coherent