Burning Movie to CD

[Sylvie]

Hi PC guru,

I was wondering if there is a good way to burn movies (.avi) to a CD rom. What I am trying to do is capture the movies on my Video Camera and burn them to a CD. So far the movies have been too big in lentgh to burn. What kind of format is better to do this? I heard that by encoding the movie to a different format you can burn a movie to a Cd without losing any of it's length.

Do you guys have any advise or information about this? I welcome any advice since I would really love to be able to save my Video camera movies to CD's rather then the old fashion video tapes.

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Sylvie

[bassman]

Hi Sylvie,
it really depends on what software you are using. What formats it allows, what kind of compression it uses and soforth.
A blank CD with all the formating info should hold around 600Mb of data.
A fair quality 30 second clip will be around 360 Kb. I don't know what version of Windows media player you have, but here is the path to a sample movie they have included with Movie Maker for some time now. C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\TOUR\SHOWME.
Take a look at that and understand that a movie of the same quality, around 5 minutes long should take up about 4Mgb.
High quality with decent effects could easily run 1Mgb a minute.

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[sea69]

you may want to try here (http://www.dj-media.com/doc/converting_avi_to_mpeg.asp)

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This site http://www.divx-digest.com/ is very good and the people in the forums are very knowledgeable about video.



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