VHS Capture Size

[GatorFan]

How much hard drive space will a capture of a college football game (3 1/2 hours?) take up from VHS if I want it in VHS quality and to put it on DVD?

[House de Kris]

Only guessing here, but 3.5 hours of football would probably take about 70-75% of your available hard disk space.

[GatorFan]

How do you know how much available disk space I have?

[gm3dalee]

What codec are you using? What resolution?
I use the Pegasus MJPEG at the highest setting and it takes
about 30gb for a 3 hour game.

[House de Kris]

How do you know how much available disk space I have?

I don't, and that is the point. As gm3dalee asked, what are you using? I could say that if you are using a DVCII (hardware MPEG1/2 encoder) and you have it set to VCD standards, it would be 10M/min or about 2.1G total. Or, I could assume you are using the DV Bridge (hardware DV encoder) and it would be about 200M/min or about 42G total. You may have neither of these. I just don't know. And I never will with such an open ended question. Providing more details will result in a better answer.

[krkenter]

Uh oh, a gator fan lurks. Just 1 bit of advice. Dont try capturing the '01 Sugar Bowl. It will CRASH YOR SYSTEM!!!!! HA HA 'CANES RULE!!!!!!

Seriously, though, yes......we need more info.