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Video Capture

by ernsttco Aug 4, 2006 10:39PM PDT

I have a p4 2.26 ghz, 1gb ram, 100gb hd, 80gb hd,ati radeon 256mb graphic card, abit ai7 motherboard built in sound. I connected a vcr to a Dazzle hollywood dv bridge. Then connected it through firewire wire on my computer. I have used both the latest nero vision and premier 1.5. I dont know if this is normal but both programs took a long time and is eating up a lot of harddrive space in converting the video. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong.

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I'll write normal.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 5, 2006 5:02AM PDT

New video editors (you?) are often amazed at how slow their PC becomes and how many gigabytes a video file can be. All normal.

I will note I use WINDV for caption.

Bob

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by ernsttco Aug 5, 2006 5:23AM PDT

Yeah. im new to this. After only an hour, close to 15gb had been eaten up.

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15GB per hour for capture sounds OK.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 6, 2006 3:01AM PDT

While others may chime in, I'd let it do that but later we'll use your video editor or TRANSCODE it to a more efficient encoding.

I strongly suggest you stick "with what works" during capture since it takes an even better CPU to compress while capturing.

The disk space will be reclaimed as you recompress/re-encode the captured video.

Bob

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