Originally posted by: BrikHaus81
2) When the whole file is captured and on my hard drive, what would be the best method of "shrinking" the 20gb file down to 4.5gb without it looking too crappy?
For laserdisc captures, I'd recommend applying some form of noise reduction before encoding. You could use AVISynth, VirtualDub or even the filter built in to TMPGEnc. 2) When the whole file is captured and on my hard drive, what would be the best method of "shrinking" the 20gb file down to 4.5gb without it looking too crappy?