Why my files are very large ?

[rope]

I am new to capturing world. I have a KW878RF PCI card and I try capture my home movies of my 8mm video camara with virtualdub and this generate files with extension .avi very large for little minutes (350MB for 2:30min). Is this correct ??? I need to capture movies of 1 hr. or more and I don´t have many disk space (only 8GB). Is there any option for generate small files ?

Excuse my bad english.

Rudy.

[rhegedus]

You need to set the compression.

High Quality Capturing with Little Frame Loss in VirtualDub

[andkiich]

Yep, you need compression. Try the MJPEG or Huffy codecs in Virtualdub.

[freebird73717]

you should also get another hard drive seperatly for your captures. the drive you have is really not big enough for even compressed avi captures,

[non-linear]

If you want to get serious about video capturing, you're definitelly going to need another hard drive. Drive prices are falling steadily (I bought a 120Gb here in Canada for under $150, taxes, shipping included). You need space to capture the raw file, then space for the mpg file(s) that you'll have to create for your disc, then space to compile your discs to. 8Gb definitelly isn't gonna cut it.

[DarkHate]

you can buy a 160gb Maxtor hardrive at STAPLES for $139.00 with a mail in rebate for $30

[rhegedus]

And let's not forget that a Celeron processor will hold up encoding too...