neil f wrote:
Hi folks.

I recently transferred a bunch of Super 8 sound home movies to video,
using wall projection and firewire from a Sony video camera. The
final results (after many trials and experiments) seem excellent to
my eye. I'm keen to copy the films onto DVDs and spread them around
various family households for viewing and safe keeping. However,
whenever I try to save the uncompressed AVI files to DVD they end up
much smaller than the original in file size (and therefore probably
lower resolution) and I get an error about an unknown codec when I
attempt to playback.

I did all my editing and flicker removal etc in VirtualDub and always
saved as 'uncompressed AVI'. Each 3 minute film is therefore about
5.4GB in size. I was thinking of getting a dual layer Blu-ray drive
so I could save a number of films to each DVD. But unless I can find
a way to save the files to disc uncompressed and in a readable format
I might as well save my money. What I really want the system to do is
save a byte-for-byte copy of the original without any mangling along
the way. Is this possible - if so how - and are there any free-ish
programs that will achieve this?

Thanks,
-Neil F.

How are you transfering to disc

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