dvsd compression

[factor12]

I am trying to compress multiple large dvsd files made by Adobe Premiere from digital video captures (all of the codec details are below).
What method would you recommend for compressing this type of video? I have a lot of other files like this ranging from this size up to 20 GB! I need to get all this stuff off my hard disc and onto DVD's. I am preferably looking for a lossless solution.


FILE_NAME Untitled Clip 01 01.avi
FILE_NAME_WITH_PATH F:\Apple\Untitled Clip 01 01.avi
FILE_SIZE 792,180,020
CONT_BASETYPE AVI(.AVI)
CONT_SUBTYPE OpenDML (AVI v2.0),
CONT_INTERLEAVE_TIME
CONT_INTERLEAVE_PRELOAD
CONT_INTERLEAVE_ALIGN
CONT_TOTAL_BITRATE 0
CONT_BYTES_MISSING 0
CONT_AUDIO_STREAM_COUNT 1
VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE dvsd
VIDEO_CODEC_NAME DVC/DV Video
VIDEO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
VIDEO_DURATION 0:03:32
VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT 5310
VIDEO_QF 2.784
VIDEO_SIZE_X 720
VIDEO_SIZE_Y 576
VIDEO_DISPLAY_SIZE_X
VIDEO_DISPLAY_SIZE_Y
VIDEO_ASPECT_DECIMAL
VIDEO_ASPECT_FRAC
VIDEO_PICS_PER_SEC 25
VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC 25
VIDEO_FIELDS_PER_SEC
VIDEO_BITRATE 28862
VIDEO_MPEG4
VIDEO_MPEG4_BVOP
VIDEO_MPEG4_NVOP
VIDEO_MPEG4_QPEL
VIDEO_MPEG4_GMC
VIDEO_H264
VIDEO_SAR
VIDEO_DAR 1.25
VIDEO_MPEG2
VIDEO_MPEG2_I_L
VIDEO_MPEG2_PROG
VIDEO_MPEG2_TFF
VIDEO_MPEG2_BFF

[Matthew]

Are you interested in standalone support?

If not, huffyuv and mjpeg are options, but the files will be large. High-bitrate XviD is another option.

If you want standalone support then you can use a decent encoder like CCE (Basic) to encode to MPEG-2. The source resolution is already (PAL) DVD so you won't be taking a hit in that regard. Check out the guides in the DV forum.

[communist]

Scrap HuffYUV it will only create large files with no benefit for your purpose (these are DV compressed avis, right?). If you want to edit them sometime in the future again and only want to archive them, leave them as they are and burn to DVD. If you want to play them on a DVD Player encode to MPEG2 etc. etc.

Without knowing what exactly you want to do with them later its difficult to give you a good suggestion. The most lossless situation is to keep them as they are and only split them to fit on DVD (using VDub's directstreamcopy mode for ex.).

[Matthew]

Scrap HuffYUV it will only create large files with no benefit for your purpose (these are DV compressed avis, right?).

Yeah...given I realised this is DV I have -no- idea why I suggested huffyuv. XviD is still an option though.

[factor12]

I have no intention of playing them at all, this is purely for backup purposes.
I might want to reuse them later (I want to leave that possibility open). I converted half of them to xvid and then I started thinking with DVD-R so cheap now I'm really just wasting my time - especially if I'm losing quality in the conversion. It is a bit annoying spanning over so many disks but: whatever gets the job done.
I'll take that "VDub's directstreamcopy mode" advice on board communist. Thanks for your help guys.