Format for capture??

[barnsey]

I have limited hd space (8gb) and I am currently producing a video, the end product i want to produce to svcd. Which is the best format to capture to considering i will have to sort through roughly 3 hours of raw footage to edit in Premiere. Also could someone give me some size comparisons for a min or so of video (eg. how big is 1 min of uncompressed avi???)

Thanx for the help.....

[hitechjunkie]

take a look a the video file comparison chart on this page

[Vejita-sama]

Also if you if you run Virtual Dub, it tells you the kbytes/s you'll need as you change the setup. This is a good way to predict size. Also using the huffyuv codec you can expect atleast 2:1 compression of that number.

If you want to capture at a high resolution at 30fps, I would strongly suggest you buy a new HD. 40GB are ~$75 online and 60GB drives are $100~125. Even Best Buy and Costco have pretty good prices on drives.
The thing is that even thou it possible to work on an 8GB drive by cutting/pasting everything together it's a huge pain in the ass. Don't forget you'll have to capture in chunks, encode in chunks, (somehow store the chunks), repeat several times, then get only the encoded MPEGs on your HD, splice them into one file (which will generate a file slightly greater then the sum of all the smaller ones), etc. etc.

I don't say this is dash your plans, but because I use to do stuff like this and it's not worth the $100 to buy a bigger HD Luck...