Question for Mattias (or any other compression guru)

[boohoo]

you also did not mention whether the footage was captured on you PC by firewire or capture card. What type of capture card? It may have a built in hardware mpeg encoder. Was it captured uncompressed? What type of lossless codec? One pass or two pass variable bit rate? Maybe you should post this question on a dvd authoring board and see what type of reaction you will get. There are people who can help you with the mpeg encoding that do not shoot super 8. You can disbelieve, but there is a wealth of knowlede that can be exchanged. In the end it will only be better for the super 8 community.

[boohoo]

look at this post, its on this forum

"Typical MPEG file sizes for 50 foot films"

His question is clear and states the context of his difficulties, you have not

[mattias]

$3000 mpeg compression software will make a big differnce when comapred to a $50.

tmpgenc is one of the cheapest ones, and easily one of the best, while mpeg2enc is free and the worst though (although still pretty good), so it depends. you have to try before you buy.

/matt

[mattias]

I think Matt is right here: grouping grains, depending on the colors of the scene.

for clarity i'd like to point out that i was commenting on film grain in general, not video transfer artifacts specifically.

/matt