Space requred seems odd

[jriker]

I have a 3 hour VHS tape that I dubbed into my computer with a Canopus ADVC110 Firewire device. Media is in DV format (about 40GB) and was brought in using Sony Vegas 8.0. I had a plugin I wanted to apply to the video and was also try to convert from Interlaced to Progressive. My drive is a RAID drive with 1.5TB of space. 30% into the video it had 300GB left. Somehow this seems odd. Is this a Vegas problem or do I need like 6TB of space to convert this uncompressed? I am currently testing Lagarith codec for the conversion, as I'm assuming since it's "lossless" it's going to provide equal quality to uncompressed. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

JR

[lordsmurf]

75GB per hour, possibly doubled in a Vegas temp file, plus other temp files.
Clean out your trash bin too.

[jriker]

So I guess we can agree at 75GB an hour, this doesn't make sense. When I started I had 1.4TB free still and my trash was empty. I started the uncompressed process running at night and when I woke up in the morning it was still chugging. Funny thing was Vegas thought I only had 1 minute left but the scroll bar said 30% done. I believe the 30% more than the 1 minute since it didn't finish. If this makes any difference, in vegas it was showing with best quality, uncompressed, 740x480x128. Not sure if that 128 is a color setting, but that sounds a bit much if it is.

JR