Settings for the Sage Recorder ver. 1.5

[axlman]

Hey all,

Yup, another Noob here. So I'll try to make this quick and simple.

I'm just in need of knowing what are good basic settings for the recorder?!

I do plan on buring and maybe shrinking files so I can put them on DVD's.

I of course would like to have good video and audio quality, but not have to worry about a 2hr. show taking up a load of space on the hard drive. Not until I get another spare drive setup for my recordings only of course.

I looked at the "Advanced Video Capture Settings" in the recorder, but I am at a total loss!

I have attatched some screen shots of the program if that helps.

I have a PVR-350 card.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

[lennyt]

When I first tried Sage Recorder using a PVR-250 card (same as the 350) I used all of the startup default settings and changed the Encoding setting to "Great". With these settings I could record 2 1-hr TV shows and burn to a DVD (using DVD Movie Factory) and get excellent quality. That is something I could not do using WinTV 2000 unless I squeezed it first. 1 TV show taking about 1,900,000kb of HD space, about 1/3 less then Win2000 did. I always record on DVD-RW unless I want to keep the recording forever. With the price of blank discs dropping so low I rather use more discs and get the excellent quality.