Mini Dv to Hard drive to DVD?

[grover2000]

Hi can somebody advise firstly how much hard drive space I need to capture 9hrs of mini dv footage. Secondly once edited, how can I then burn to DVD? (To understand how burn to one DVD or two).

This is for an event for a local chairity which is going to take place in a couple of months. They want to record the event live and in its totality and supply dvds after the event..

Thanks in advance

Grover

[guns1inger]

DV is roughly 12 - 13GB per hour of footage. That's just to store it. You then need to figure in temp space, output space etc for the editing process. Once edited, the finished movie needs to be encoded as a DVD compliant mpeg-2 video stream, with an appropriate compliant audio stream. These then need to be authored into a DVD. You should be able to get a comfortable 2 hours on a single layer DVD if you encode it carefully.

If this is from multiple cameras, then I would put all of it on disk and edit from there. If this is from a single camera, and you intend to edit the 9 hours down to 3 or 4 hours of highlights, I suggest going through the footage first and marking out the scenes you will most likely use, and only transferring those to disk in the first instance. You can always come back for more later.

You have a very large job ahead of you, so good luck, and keep us aprised of your progress.