What quality is best to record on in BTV?

[fsteadham]

Hello. BTV has 4 different recording quality settings to choose from. Best(DVD Ready), Good (DVD ready), Better, & Fair. Can anyone explain which is best to record in? The default is set to Best (DVD Ready). I have this & noticed that obviously, the recording uses more space on hard drive.I have lowered it to Good (DVD Ready).Should I lower it more if it will effect how much I can eventually get on a DVD? I am not really worried about hard drive space as it is recording to a large ext hard drive, but I was wondering that for the same time amount of recording, does the one that takes less GB's, once changed to MPEG1 with DVD author, will I be able to fit more on a disk. How much does the quality setting really matter with the pic, & why does BTV have the DVD ready notaion by Best & Good. Thanks

[Cross673]

By lowering the quality of the recording you will get smaller files sizes for each video. This should allow you to fit more content onto a DVD.

If you are using Snapstream's DVD plugin then I wouldn't worry about reducing the quality of your recorded videos to fit onto a DVD. When the video is too big for a DVD, the DVD burning plugin will compress the video(s) to fit onto a DVD. Therefore, you can record and watch videos at DVD(Best) quality and still compress them (if needed) to fit onto a DVD when the file(s) are to big.