compression in ulead studio7 ??????

can anyone tell me how to compress a captured file down so i can fit it onto two disks. i have looked through the ulead videostudio 7 for some time now, but cannot find how to do it. i`m capturing vhs pal to svcd thanks al

hi swan again thanks for your timw. as you might have noticed, i`m new to this.!!!! yes i agree with you, the results so far have been very blocky. with regards to altering the bit rate in studio7 ? i have gone into capture mode, options then to mpeg-2 video bit rate settings only to find the box greyed out. do you have any idea how to get this section operational again. thanks al

thanks swan i`m using ulead video studio 6

hi swan what a differance , thanks very much, only captured 30 secs so far and the playback picture is great. this is what comes of asking advise from someone who knows what they are doing. this will keep me occupied for a good while now, i have just had a new heart valve fitted so my new hobby is changing all my old classic films over to disk. i am getting a larger hard drive fitted tomorrow so it will take me a couple of days to have a go at this properly. would it be possible to keep an eye on this post over the next couple of days in case i need any more advise from you, i know its asking a lot, but you have made things so much clearer for me. many thanks swan al

hi swan ok, i will will send you one and you can decide. al

hi swan ok i`m back up and running with a 60gb hard drive. i tried to capture a film this morning at the settings you gave me, i managed to get 60 minutes of the film before an error popped up on screen telling me i had run out of alloted disk space, (the captured file at this point was 3.9gb). i also noticed that a lot of frames had been dropped (2000). i never lost any while you were directing me over the last couple of days. have you any ideas?????? i must add that the video and audio quality of the film i captured was perfect. thanks al

hi swan i`m using windows 2000, and the computer is 4 months old 60gig hard drive radion7000 graphics card 1200 processor. no i did not capture the full film earlier, just 15 minutes. would i need to drop the bit rate to get a larger capture. i was capturing at 9000 on the bit rate lots of problems, but it is great fun dont you think thanks al

hi swan ok i admit i`m a plonker, i have just realised i am using ME. THE GOOD NEWS IS THE GUY NEXT DOOR HAS 2000 !. so at the moment i am stuck till i get 2000 on. with regards to disk space, i have 51gig free. is there any special settings i need to choose when intalling 2000??. in the meantime i will have a go at capturing a couple of 30 minute shows (dads army). i will let you know how that goes. again can you keep an eye on my posts please. thanks al

hi swan well i`m back up and running, of a sort anyway. i now have xp so that should sort out the limitrd file system. i managed to copy a 35 minute dads army show with the bit rate at 6000. great playback except for a sort of strobe effect on any fast movents, such as arms or a fast moving object. tried to capture at 9000 bit rate which gave me a 1.52gig file then i tried to use tmpge to compress it. at this point tmpge tells me the file cannot be opened or is not supported. does tmpge need a patch or could it be that i captured the file as an mpeg 2. ? as you can tell i must be so close now to capturing good quality video, the last thing i expected to hold me up was tmpge. do you have any thoughts on the above, if you have, throw them this way please swan thanks al

hi swan thanks for the info. i was able to get tmpge sorted straight away, my mate had one of the filters. i will check out the interlace problem later today. could i have your advise on using tmpge. i seem to be getting a sync problem when reducing files, have you any idea what causes this and can it be fixed. ? many thanks al