Captured 47mins of DV. Is it supposed to be 10.1 Gig?

[bganthis]

I captured from my JVC camcorder via the firewire into the PC using Win Movie Maker. I had the capture settings at 25mbps and 720x480

The duration of the file is 47 mins. The file size is 10.1 Gigs.

This seems large.
Here are the file properties of the AVI that was captured.

Bit Rate 1536 KBPS
Audio Sample Size 16bit
Audio Format PCM
Frame Rate 29FPS

Is there a better setting to use? I dont mind the file being this big cause I will just convert it to SVCD anyways then delete it. Would this give me the best possible capture quality?

Thanks for your advice..

[Riccardom]

It's the right file size, and the right (and I think the only available thru firewire) audio/video properties for NTSC.
You can go on.
Riccardo

[Dragonsf]

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Bit Rate 1536 KBPS
...

The Bitrate seems a little bit low: shouldn't it be 3550 KBPS?

[bganthis]

That is what it says in the .AVI properties of the file.

1536

Hmmm

[Dragonsf]

That is what it says in the .AVI properties of the file.

1536

Hmmm

more Hmmmm:
if you calculate:
47*60*1536 you end up at 4.333 GB
but
25mbps / 8=3125 KBPS
and
10.1GByte/(47*60)=3581KBPS.
Something is very strange here.

[ironwood321]

Hi,

DV video outputs at 3.8MB/Sec so
1hr of video will be 13.680GB

In this you also have the uncompressed PCM audo

I think windows is reporting the file properties incorrectly.

Try to find a tool called AVI-INFO

http://www.divx-digest.tv/nicky/avinfo_1.2a.zip