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Help.. Capturing my video ??
HI there..
I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. I used it last year and made a DVD that ran about 2 hours long. THe only problem that I ran into was rendering it onto the DVD at first but than you guys helped me and I am very thankful.
I used both Digital 8 cameras and mini DV last year..
OK with that said,, I am starting to capture my video in this year thru the Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. I just used the standard settings when I picked it to open a new project. I am only using Canon GL2 films which are Mini Dv’s. I have only captured about 2 videos and I have used up 28 GB already of my harddrive and I have about 24 more tapes to load in. My harddrive space is only 149 GB (which did not cause a problem last year and I cleaned all my old footage off of it and starteed new)
Anyways. I was wondering if it was normal for the file sizes to be this big when they are saved? If not what and how do I change it??. A 16 sec. clip is about 62,854 KB , 8 min. clip is 1,783,764 KB and a 13 min. clip is 2,865,946 KB.
They are all being saved as an .avi file..
To me this just seems really large but maybe it is not.
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6 Replies
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Around 13 GB/hour is normal. Better get some extra disk space.
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Is there anyway to capture it smaller or that is not an option it is just what it is?
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That is not an option. There are programs that can capture directly to MPEG-2 video that is ready for use with a DVD, but then it is not suitable for editing.
Steven
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Thanks so much that answers all my questions. You guys are so awesome!!!
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Thank you so much
Your advice is very helpful.. -
[blondie4fun] “I have only captured about 2 videos and I have used up 28 GB already of my harddrive and I have about 24 more tapes to load in. My harddrive space is only 149 GB (which did not cause a problem last year and I cleaned all my old footage off of it and starteed new)”
As has been mentioned DV video takes up alot of space, a disk to hold it all isn’t too expensive these days, a 500gB sataII drive is only about $140+shipping, I don’t know how much space you are going to be able to afford, but large ammounts of video can be unwieldly, and sometimes its better to review your video, make a capture list for each tape and batch capture, also a hard copy storyboard, rough trimming will save your space and give you a better perspective of the project, if you are not familar with the processes you can do a search of the forum for “batch capture”, “how to trim”, and “storyboarding” there are also resources that you can find on the net by searching.
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