Problem: How to split a huge capture?

[ranchhand]

I am capturing analog camcorder tapes with the Hauppauge 250 card to mpeg2. The Hauppauge is working great, no problems (with this forums' help in the past-thanks Jagabo!). Well, I just did a capture that ran up to 6.3 Gigs, one complete cassette of tape. My problem is how to I burn it to a DVD disk for storage? And if I edit it in Pinnacle 10.7 the same problem-it is too big for burning to a DVD.

Just for a laugh, I tried compressing with WinZip; wouldn't touch it, Winzip maxes out at 3Gigs. Tried my favorite, WinRAR, and to its credit it compressed it, but 1 still got 5.5 Gigs.

So-how do I split a tape capture using the Hauppauge 250PVR card and WinTV2000 software?? I am sure I just don't turn off the camcorder half way through the tape. Or do I do it in Pinnacle?

[olyteddy]

Why not use an authoring program like Ulead DVD MovieFactory? That's the one that came with my Hauppauge PVR USB2, and works ok.

[johns0]

Burn to dual layer dvd.

[ranchhand]

Okay, for those that are interested, I solved the problem. I used a freeware utility called The File Splitter and it worked great. I chopped the 6.3 Gig mpg into two sections and saved one each to a DVD along with the "re-create" utility provided, and a README notepad instruction on each DVD, so that years from now whoever wants to can rejoin the two files. Then, in Pinnacle, I created two movies, Part 1 and Part 2.

Thanks for all the advice. So far Pinnacle is running fast and perfect; it imported that 6 Gig file and worked with it without a glitch.