10 minute video. 30 clips, 30 transitions, 10 titles.

Want to save > to computer > DVI > space needed on
disk... 2100.00 MB! (NOT a typo!)

I know saving to DVI is for putting it back on tape, but
smaller videos work OK. Anyone else get similar errors?

Not unreasonable - 2GB for 10 minutes of DV-AVI is about right, it's not an
error.

DV-AVI uses lossless compression, which is why the file size is so large.
Think of the difference between a bitmap (.bmp) file (lossless compression)
and a JPEG file (lossy compression).

Jake

"JEM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:089a01c3df45$54829f90$(E-Mail Removed)...
> 10 minute video. 30 clips, 30 transitions, 10 titles.
>
> Want to save > to computer > DVI > space needed on
> disk... 2100.00 MB! (NOT a typo!)
>
> I know saving to DVI is for putting it back on tape, but
> smaller videos work OK. Anyone else get similar errors?

One hour of digital video is approximately 12gb in DV-AVI format. So yes,
2.1gb for 10 minutes is correct.

If you're going to do digital video editing. you need large hard drives. I
have a 200gb drive, a 120gb drive and an 80gb drive. And a single DVD
burner. If you have only small hard drives, don't even bother thinking
about editing!

Cari
www.coribright.com

"JEM" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:089a01c3df45$54829f90$(E-Mail Removed)...
> 10 minute video. 30 clips, 30 transitions, 10 titles.
>
> Want to save > to computer > DVI > space needed on
> disk... 2100.00 MB! (NOT a typo!)
>
> I know saving to DVI is for putting it back on tape, but
> smaller videos work OK. Anyone else get similar errors?