Not enough space

[Guest]

Please help !
I am trying to complete a project which was coming along rather nicely. But all the clips that I have captured as DV-AVI have taken up a lot of space on my pc. I have a 60 GB and due to these clips I am now down to 13. The project is ever so slow and I am getting worried that I may not be able to convert to MPEG 2 for DVD burning.
For the future, although it may be tedious, Can I capture my video, as DV-AVI , then convert to Mpg, then edit my movie and save to DVD. What will I sacrifice and will that be quicker in the long run
Thanks

 

[print_maker]

I would capture using WMV at the highest setting - an hour is 600-900KB
using the variable bit rate setting.
Then render out to AVI.

I have 33 hours of "home video" on my PC in 'variable bit rate' WMV and use
this for making family videos.

Unless I am doing something I consider "Art" I rarely capture in DV-AVI -
then I care a lot more about small losses - but with the family stuff, they
can never tell even if I can see a little loss here or there. For the most
part, I just don't see the loss.

Please help !
I am trying to complete a project which was coming along rather nicely.

But all the clips that I have captured as DV-AVI have taken up a lot of
space on my pc. I have a 60 GB and due to these clips I am now down to 13.
The project is ever so slow and I am getting worried that I may not be able
to convert to MPEG 2 for DVD burning.

For the future, although it may be tedious, Can I capture my video, as

DV-AVI , then convert to Mpg, then edit my movie and save to DVD. What will
I sacrifice and will that be quicker in the long run.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

But all the clips that I have captured as DV-AVI have taken up a lot of
space on my pc. I have a 60 GB and due to these clips I am now down to 13.
The project is ever so slow and I am getting worried that I may not be able
to convert to MPEG 2 for DVD burning.
DV-AVI , then convert to Mpg, then edit my movie and save to DVD. What will
I sacrifice and will that be quicker in the long run.

I would capture using WMV at the highest setting - an hour is 600-900KB
using the variable bit rate setting.
Then render out to AVI.

The highest setting I can capture at in MM gives me 170MB per minute.
Are you using USB to capture? Even then, that's pretty low for 60
minutes of video. The quality must be shocking.

I have 33 hours of "home video" on my PC in 'variable bit rate' WMV and use
this for making family videos.

I'd need nearly 500 gigabytes of storage for that.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Please help !
I am trying to complete a project which was coming along rather nicely. But all the clips that I have captured as DV-AVI have taken up a lot of space on my pc. I have a 60 GB and due to these clips I am now down to 13. The project is ever so slow and I am getting worried that I may not be able to convert to MPEG 2 for DVD burning.
For the future, although it may be tedious, Can I capture my video, as DV-AVI , then convert to Mpg, then edit my movie and save to DVD. What will I sacrifice and will that be quicker in the long run.

Try it. Also get http://www.scenalyzer.com/ to break the large AVI
files in to smaller chunks. You can then ditch those that you don't
want, and try converting those that you do to MPEG to judge the loss.