[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.