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aka009
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_ 		7. October 2009 @ 23:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've captured two minDV tapes so far with 28 more to go of our home movies from the last 10yrs or so.

However i'm obviously doing something wrong for them to be so large. A 90minute tape is taking up 106gb of space on my computer.

I'm on Vista Ultimate x64 using a Sony DCR-HC21.

I used Nero Vision to capture and I chose the capturing template AVI, which below shows the video and audio compressor as: No Compression.

Should I be choosing DV Type-2 instead? It gives option for Type 1 too, but I wanted to capture in the best quality onto hard drive first and work with minor editing before compressing them into something smaller. Minor editing as in only cutting and splicing.

Right now i'm trying to find another program to capture the tapes to see if they make such a large file too. I don't plan to use Nero except for burning discs. Just in the learning phase at the moment and all I had.

Any help is very much appreciated.
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attar
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_ 		8. October 2009 @ 06:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Uncompressed files are huge - you have to select one or the other, else you will run out of HD space.

http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/d...v2-t301967.html
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aka009
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_ 		8. October 2009 @ 13:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay, sounds like from what i've read so far that I should choose type 2.

I did transfer using WinDV type 2 this time and it transferred the file in the expected size around 20gb for 90 minutes.

I guess if i was going to use Nero Vision I should of chose DV Type-2 instead of their AVI: No Compression

I am really surprised out how much bigger AVI No Compression makes the file or container so large.
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