HI 8 capture on Ulead movie factory

[clifsmith]

I am using HI 8 to capture on Ulead movie factory. My goal is to burn to DVD-R with best sound and picture.
The following are the capture settings i used:

30 fps
720 x 480 resolution, UYVY (what does UYVY mean?)
48khz, 16 bit stereo sound
video capture filter (video properties)

Anyway I captured 60 seconds of video to AVI and it took up 555 megabytes of storage space. There is no way I can store 2 hours of video tape to my hard drive.
Why does it take up so much space? What am I doing wrong?

[Tommyknocker]

I capture with Ulead Video Studio. When AVI capture is available, so are the codecs. Check the Comparisons chart at left to see which codec is right for you.

[clifsmith]

So.... do the codecs "compress" AVI files to make them smaller. Then you can convert that one to mpeg2.

I just don't have the hard disc space (60 gig free) to put a 2 hour video onto a dvd, at the rate of space that my current AVI capture is taking.

[Tommyknocker]

Exactly. Codecs mean compressor/decompressor.