Preserving DV Quality: NTSC and AV-DVI

Hello, experts...

Our family purchased a DV camcorder last year and I have been slowly trying
to do more sophisticated things using MM.

Since we didn't own a DVD player initially, I had recorded all video using
the High Quality NTSC option in MM. I edited and watched movies on our
computer and burned it to VCDs. The quality was fuzzy, but otherwise fine.

More recent movies made in MM appear much more pixelated and blurry than
those I made last year. I am using the same computer to record and edit the
video. When the camcorder is connected directly to the television, the
original digital video quality is excellent.

I don't know what might account for the observed deterioration in quality of
movies made in MM, but I need to find a way to preserve high quality movies
for my family. After combing through the archives of this site, it appears
that the best way to preserve high quality DV footage from a camcorder is to
record and burn to DVD in DV-AVI format.

If that's the case, I have a couple questions:

1) My hard drive disk space only has 7 GB left. Can I free up space to
have 14 GB available to record (and edit) an hour of DV-AVI footage or should
I buy an external drive?

2) What type of DVD burner should I get so that we view them with an older
DVD player? It appears there are multiple DVD formats...

3) Is there any way to capture DV footage using the "High Quality NTSC"
option and watch it in full screen mode on the computer without all the
pixelation/distortion?

Thanks!




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