Scuba,
I have a question for you
I shoot with a mini dv jvc camera, (it states on it 520 horisontal lines, but I guess its 720 by 480 ??)
and I use premiere to inport the file via fire wire...
so I have a movie (avi file) on my hard drive whitch is insanely large -few gigs.
well anyway, this is a thing about me, I am like you, I've done photograpy all my life, and quality is what I care about, I dont want to sacrife quality more than 1%~~~~~
It doesnt look good to begin with (to me that is, b/c I want megapixel resolution), so I definatelly dont want to cut it even more.
My problem is I have to convert/encode/dicode( still reading up on this stuff),
well I have to do something to make the file size smaller.
I want to fit between 20 and 30 minutes on one cd-r
right now leaving the data raw (the way it imports from camera to premier), I fit about 2-4 minutes
what would you suggest in my situation,
and again I have been reading a lot on
http://www.divx-digest.com and doom9.org
but they have so many gazilion ways to do everything, I'm just not finding/ not sure of what will work for
what I want.
any help from anyone would be appriiated.
my 2 rubles.