u/onehair

My father has a Panasonic NV-DS 11 DVC digital camcorder, and around 11 MiniDV cassettes.
I managed to get the footage out on Windows 11 over Firewire with WinDV. I now have 50 GB worth of AVI files (from 3 of the cassettes)

The FFProbe of the file is like this

∂ ffprobe 04-08-11_09-59.00.avi
Input #0, avi, from '04-08-11_09-59.00.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:03.36, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 30832 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Video: dvvideo (dvsd / 0x64737664), yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3], 28800 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn
  Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s

Any other step before converting to mp4, hevc, or av1 i should be aware of?

These videos are quite big for what they are. I was wondering what format could I use to shrink the videos up for sharing with family and such and easy of transfer over messaging apps or even giving access directly to media gallery?

My father specifically wouldn't mind them being just a little bit less High quality if it meant shrinking the 50GB to something manageable.