What to do after I've rendered...

[patrickmerrill]

Hello,

I have a DV camera and I use a firewire card to capture the video. I was wondering if I could some tips on what to with the video files, since they take up so much disk space (besides burning DVDs, because I would still like the original video that was captured). Some options I have considered: burning the raw AVI to a CD-RW (not a VCD), burning the raw file to a DVD (again, not DVD video). If there are some better ways please let me know.

[daamon]

Hi patrickmerrill,

DV AVI takes up around 13.5Gb per hour. So storing on CDs, or even DVDs, as data means you'll need a lot of disks for not much footage.

Get yourself a 200Gb hard drive, possibly in an external housing so it can be easily "moved around" or stored. Large hard drives aren't that expensive nowadays...

Some people export their finished projects back to DV tape and store them that way.

[patrickmerrill]

thank you, i think i will just keep a miniDV tape or 2 around to store my video on...

thanks again,

patrick