Fast enough ?

[takovr]

I have a p3 1g computer with windows 2000 on it with a 30g
5400 hard drive with 256 megs of ram. Is my hard drive fast enough to capture movies on it? Im using ulead msp as my capturing software.

[Vejita-sama]

Sure, but 30GB is fairly small, so you'll want to use some compression codec to save space. Losses codecs like huffyuv are the most popular.

[WMCollins]

IMHO, 5400 are not fast enough for sustained long captures. I have 7200 IBM and it does the job without dropping frames. 2GBs of space is required about 9 minutes of video. Therefore 30GBs is about 45 minutes of video.

Other important points, use a separate HD for your applications/system and second HD for your AV. Finally, your HD used for AV should be format NTFS if you plan on capturing pass 4GBs with W2K.

[takovr]

I have 2 h/d's on two different system's windows me is on my 40g 7200hd and windows 2000 is on my 30g 5400.. I captured a 1 hour movie from my camcorder to my 30g h/d it took up 12g's of space. I didn't drop any frame's but my h/d led light was flashing all the time..

[Hiei]

I have a Dual Pentium 3 1 Ghz Geforce2 Ultra 2 HD 10GB 7,2000 in Raid 0 ans 2 40gb 7,2000 in Raid 0 for Video Capture and 2 40gb 7,2000 for storage all format whit NTFS. sound blaster live X-Gamer Win-TV FM W/Remote and WinXP pro no problems whit capture use raid 0 for capture and you see the big difference .

[Hiei]

p.s. 1 GB Ram pc133 =)