Is this a normal file size?

[Toogy]

While I am waiting for my ADVC-1394 to show up I thought I would dust off my WINTV Go and get the latest XP drivers and give it a shot.
I was really impressed, much better than I remember.
Anyways I captured 30 min of video at 720x480 with Huffy compression and the resulting file size is 16 GB. Does that sound right? If I encode to mpg it gets MUCH smaller. Why is it so big? I don't want to compress it anymore while capturing because then it looks like crap.
This does make a wonderful SVCD but if I want to capture 2 hours of video I will run out of hard drive space.

Any thoughts? Does this sound right?

[BKL]

That sounds a little large. Generally, avi should capture at around 200M per minute, meaning about 12G per hour. I recently captured a 2 hr show as AVI and it took just under 25G.

[Toogy]

Is it the compression? What setting should I be using?

[blindpetted]

The reason the file size is that large is because you are capturing in dvd resolution, i capture 352x480 for vcd and i get a 9 gig file for 32 mins. So it is not an abnormal size, get a large hard drive, i suggest about 80 gig plus, and get a hard drive with 7200 RPM, it's great

blindpet

[BKL]

HAve you read throgh the guides? One of the main thigs you will see recommended is to capture at the same resolution you plan to encode to. I use the Dazzle hollywood DV-Bridge to convert the analog the composite video and stereo audio output of my DirecTV receiver to DV and then bring that into my system via my 1394 card. Like I said, takes about 25G for a 2 hr show.

[RoopeT]

Huffuv @ full PAL DVD resolution takes more than 500 M/minute, so the filesize is what to expect.

HAve you read throgh the guides? One of the main thigs you will see recommended is to capture at the same resolution you plan to encode to.

WRONG!