I had already suggested this, which is what started the whole Mjpeg discussion ;p except I use Mjpeg set to a rather low quality setting for my B&S because its faster than lagarith. I ususally set the quality slider around the middle, so that a whole 4 episode DVD compressed comes out to be between 3 and 4 gigs, good enough quality to edit to, but not so large that I loose all my HD space. I think It will compress to as low as around 1gig, but the footage is hardly recognizable at that much compression.hasteroth wrote:If you don't use clips and your an bastard with a short attention span like me and you don't use effects (cause this method can screw those up) You could try the bait and swap method and since I'm too lazy to explain it... read this
To save space I use xvid instead of lagarith cause my hdd is tiny.
And do not use Xvid, you may end up with stray frames and cuts not where you placed them, when you switch it back. Xvid is not frame accurate.
Thanks for all the suggestions and stuff I really appreciate it 