How can I make a movie onto RWCD from digital camcorder?

[RAS]

Dear friends,
I have Canon 150MVi digital camcorder which has a firewire port. I
have laptop with windowXP which has firewire port. I have recoreded
movie from camcorder onto RWCD via window movie maker. But just now
found out that the quality of picture in the RWCD on playback on
full-screen of laptop is very poor compared to the quality of original
recording.

When I changed the format of recording into DV/AVI ( 25 frames per
sec) (Apprx 750X560(Pxl)) then the recorded material became so large
that could not be copied onto CDRW.

I desperately want to know how can I record my movies onto disk from
camcorder cassettes so that these could be preserved for longtime.

Also I am also frustrated that after spending so much time to record 8
camcorder cassettes, it is going to be wasted. Is there a way I can
convert these saved / copied files onto some other format to improve
picture quality?

Please help me out in this.
Thanks, RAS

 

[Graham Hughes]

dv-avi = 13gb per hour. There is no way you are going to save any movie to
cd and keep an acceptable quality in comparison.
If all you want to do is archive, then leave it on the tape and keep them
cool, dark and fully rewound, ff and rew once a year or so and all will be
well.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com