I am trying to put my childs basketball game onto dvd. They were taped on an analog camcorder and the file size is well over the 4.7 gb on a dvd. I can download with my dazzle adapter and it seems fine at about 29 fps. I have plenty of hard drive 240gb and speed 2.53. memory is 1gb of ddr333. I can seem to tranfer fine I just need to know how to compress the file to fit more or at least all of one game on a dvd. Also after compressing I would like to be able to play it on a regular dvd player. Some of the programs I have to use are showbiz, movie star, on dvd, and dvd complete. Any ideas? If so please describe in detail of how to proceed as I am not an expert......

thanks for any help..... gambler40

just recently at work we've been figuring out the best way of getting movies off a digital video camera. 20mins of DV was producing 4GB avi files which were converted to 1GB mpg files.

That was insane.
We worked out we could alter the quality of the mpeg to VCD quality which looks perfectly reasonable but only makes 10mb per minute mpegs.

Using Nero you can create VCD or SuperVCD disc which can be played on stand-alone dvd players (of they support it) and using DVD software on the computer.

VCD is 1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1, 352 x 288 pixels
fits 80mins on a 700mb cd

SVCD is max 2600 kbit/sec MPEG-2, 480 x 576 pixels

DV is about 3700kbit/sec, 720x576

anyway suggest you read stuff at http://www.dvdrhelp.com for more help.

hope this helps :-)

even better go here:

How to make a good looking VCD using a Dazzle Capture Card
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dazzlecapture.htm

thanks for the website it is awesome......... It will take a couple of days but I will give some of these ideas a shot.

Download the trial of TMPG at tmpgenc.net, it will take a long time to compress, but it's well worth it. Guides are over at doom9. I've never personally used Nero to make a vcd (at least the video itself), but I would say tmpg would give higher results.