dv capture problem

[willieg101]

Hello. I'm a newbie to all this, please help if you can. I'm trying to capture a 1 hour video off my dv camera. It's connected to my computer by firewire, and I'm using adobe premiere. It captures about 18 mins. of video before it shuts off and tells me the file is too big. I looked at the file and it's over 3 gigs! Is there any way to set it so that the file isn't so big? How would you compress it to put on vcd? My system is a P4 1.3g if that helps.

I've downloaded some 1 hour movies and they were only about 300 or so megabytes and the quality was pretty good. That's what I want to do. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Willie!

[jtor]

...video captured thru firewire would be in DV AVI format; and this will eat a lot of diskspace; use 3.6MB/sec as the basis.

I don't know the format of the movies you've downloaded; but surely they're not in DV AVI. What you'd do is you'll encode the DV AVI to MPEG1 (for VCD). You'll need TMPGENC to do this (it's free); although there are still other encoders available out there.

To go around the file size limitation, you can either
1. switch to W2K/NTFS
2. change your capture application (I'm not sure if Premiere has a provision to capture long videos to multiple files).
3. manually capture chunks of your video, edit, encode and append later.

pick any one of the 3 listed above. there might be some other solutions to your problem, that I'm might not be aware of...

my 2 cents.