AVI file 10x larger than VOB file?

[neilrut]

I transferred a one hour DV tape via firewire to my Philips DVDR75 burner at best quality. I burned onto a DVD+R 4.7 GB disk. I took one small chapter of this DVD and converted to a d2v file via dgindex. Using absynth and virtualdub I converted that file to AVI so I can import into Vegas. Problem is this file is like 16 GB's!!! How can I convert this file to AVI in such a way as to be manageable size wise? If I saved this entire 4.7 GB dvd in this way it would fill most of my 250 gb drive!

Neil R

[neilrut]

OK - I've found the compression window and I have applied Microsoft Video 1 compression. Still my small file is over 6 gb which is a hell of alot better than 16 gb but still not small enough. What is the best compression codec to use? Where can I download it?

Thanks,

Neil R

[lark]

if you want to have lossless compression (which you should, if you are going to process the video), i'd go for Huffyuv. use search to find it or grab the Gordian Knot Codec Pack from the download section.

regards
t :)

[manono]

And if you want a smaller more manageable AVI, also do as lark suggested and get GKnot, and then encode the file at 1-pass quant 2 in XviD maybe.

[Guest]

I'd suggest Lagarith over HUFFYUV for lossless encoding.

[Poutnik]

Other possibilities could be

MSU lossless codec ( great compression and slowness ) or
Alparysoft lossless codec ( still my favourite for intermediate encoding ( prefering speed to size - options YV12+prediction+realtime)
I think Lagarith is somewhere between them in both speed and size.

But I am not an expert, Neuron2's opinion is always respected.. :)