I did my first capture a couple months ago, but had some problems with the output of the disc (burner problems). I'm working that out now, and decided to do some more captures to have some material to work with.

Now, I did two episodes tonight. Each was about an hour each, with commercials to be edited out later. A bit of a shock, though: one was over 6GB in size, the other over 7 GB. Now the reason for my shock will soon become clear...

The first episode I captured months ago was with the following settings:
352W X 480H. This is twice as high in the vertical as normal. I did this to eliminate certain interlacing problems, that I fixed later in the process.
desktop was at millions of colours, 1024x768
captured with Huffyuv 2.1.1, 1150 bitrate, 44.1KHz audio

But, the size of one hour of video was only a little over 3.5 GB!


Now, the stuff I did tonight:

352x240 standard VCD size NTSC (decided a filter afterwards fixed things fine)
desktop settings 1024x768, thousands of colours
Huffyuv 2.1.1, 1150 bitrate, 44.1KKHz audio

How in the heck can less colours, not to mention half the previous size in the vertical, result in TWICE the size of the captured file?
I thought that the bigger the resolution, and the higher your colour setting, made bigger files, everytime. I guess not...

Can anyone explain this to me? Why did this happen?