video capturing size

[blakteerz]

my question is about the size of my captured file. i have a dazzle video creator 80 and i tried captruing band of brothers the other night, but i ran out of hard drive space. i only have a gig or so, but the thing about it was that i captured 4:20 seconds and it took up 1 GIG!!! that enourmous. is everybody getting the same size like this? what can i do to decrease the size, does it have to do with frame rate. I tried captruing in divx with virtual dub, but my comp is not fast enuff to do that. i capture either with Ulead, or adobe premiere. any tips please help.....

[TheInformer]

Sounds like you're capturing uncompressed video, which DOES take up lots of HD space

Go and install the PICVideo codecs and HuffyUV too. In your program settings there must be something about "compression", and switch the compression to YUY2 and use either huffy or picvideo codecs. It will still take up HD space, but you'll get more video stored.

[dphirschler]

I did some capturing over the weekend with the DV80 and Virtual Dub. Capturing at 320x240 (max resolution for the DV80?) with huffyuv compression, a 30 minute pogram took about 3-4gigs. The processor (700 mHz) was only at 20% or so. It seemed to drop one or two frames per second (I assume this is due to the USB speed limitation) which was acceptable to me. I would guess that Pic Video Motion JPEG compression would be significantly smaller.

Make sure when you edit the avi (to chop commercials or what not), that you do not re-compress. Your file will grow and your quality will suffer.


Darryl

[gadget]

I have 500 mhz Celeron with 319 mb of RAM. I capture at 352x240 res vcd quality, use divx low motion for video compression, pcm for audio compression, capture at 29.97fps and I have only 10 gigs in my computer. With all the programs installed, I have only 5 gigs left for my capture in divx avi, encode without deleting my avi files yet and yet I still have enough gigs left. My quality is better than original vhs movies. My cpu usage is from 25-95 and I'm dropping frames for about 1 per every minute of video being captured and I'm happy with it.