capturing digital video

[Guest]

Hi,

Trying to burn a video to a dvd for the first time, I'm already stuck
capturing it. I have a digital video camera, but when I try to capture it
with DV avi, Windows Movie Maker tells me I've only 18 min. available on my C
drive. I just bought a brand new notebook with 40 gb. What am I doing wrong
here?

 

[Graham Hughes]

It's the 4gb limit set on the type of capture. You will need to just capture
in 4gb blocks and use MM or whichever editing app you use to join them up.

 

[Guest]

Hi Graham, thanks for your reply. There's no way to change that limit?? Do
all video editing software have that?

 

[Kristen Miller [MS]]

Hi Ans --

DV-AVI is a very large file format -- and hour of DV-AVI take about 13GB of
disk space... so aside from Graham's suggestion, you should check out how
much remaining disk space you have free...

Hope this helps!
-Kristen Miller [MS]
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Guest]

Hi Kristen,

I checked and there is 22,3 GB available on the C drive. Is there no way of
capturing the whole video (about 50 min.) in one time? Thanks in advance!

Hi Ans --

DV-AVI is a very large file format -- and hour of DV-AVI take about 13GB of
disk space... so aside from Graham's suggestion, you should check out how
much remaining disk space you have free...

Hope this helps!
-Kristen Miller [MS]
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi,

Trying to burn a video to a dvd for the first time, I'm already stuck
capturing it. I have a digital video camera, but when I try to capture it
with DV avi, Windows Movie Maker tells me I've only 18 min. available on my C
drive. I just bought a brand new notebook with 40 gb. What am I doing wrong
here?

 

[Kristen Miller [MS]]

Hi Ans --

Movie Maker's maximum file size is only limited by:
1. The remaining disk space available on the target drive or
2. Any inherit file system limitiations

Perhaps the drive you are trying to save to is formatted with FAT32? (see
here for details:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp)

If your drive is FAT32, and you want to convert it to NTFS, there's also a
KBarticle that explains how here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/convertfat.mspx


Hope this helps!
-Kristen Miller [MS]
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi Kristen,

I checked and there is 22,3 GB available on the C drive. Is there no way of
capturing the whole video (about 50 min.) in one time? Thanks in advance!

Hi Ans --

DV-AVI is a very large file format -- and hour of DV-AVI take about 13GB of
disk space... so aside from Graham's suggestion, you should check out how
much remaining disk space you have free...

Hope this helps!
-Kristen Miller [MS]
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Hi,

Trying to burn a video to a dvd for the first time, I'm already stuck
capturing it. I have a digital video camera, but when I try to capture it
with DV avi, Windows Movie Maker tells me I've only 18 min. available

on
my C

drive. I just bought a brand new notebook with 40 gb. What am I doing wrong
here?