Digital 8 & Hi8 tapes to WMV in Movie Studio 9

uncle-buck wrote on 3/17/2009, 10:48 AM

I have some old Digital 8 & Hi8 video tapes that contain recordings I want to preserve. Have figured out how to capture the recordings and burn them to DVD using Movie Studio 9 and DVD Architect Studio 4.5. All good.

What's the best way to then save those recordings to my PC's hard drive - so that they can be played in Windows Media Player?

Thanks.

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 3/17/2009, 1:32 PM

If you have 'captured' the recordings that generally means that they are on your hard drive. Depending on what format they were captured in (probably DV.avi) and the codecs you have on your box they should play in WMP.

uncle-buck wrote on 3/17/2009, 4:29 PM

Thanks for your reply, Terry. The DV.avi files are very large. What I meant to ask is what's the best format to render them to so that they can be played in Windows Media Player (with audio) and take up no more than 1 - 2 GB of drive space per hour of video.

richard-amirault wrote on 3/18/2009, 2:13 PM

When you choose different format to render ... Vegas will show you about how much the render file size will be (before you actually render)

You can experiment with the different formats that fit your size requirement. Just render 2 or 3 minutes so you can play it back and see the quality. Use the same 2 or 3 minutes so that the differences between the file types are easily seen.

I would start with mpg1 (VCD quality) then maybe try mpg2 (SVCD quality), but I'm sure there are others you could use.