Capture in AVI

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:41 am

Just learning this program. I read that if I want to edit a movie and then transfer it back to the tape so I can then transfrer it to a VHS. I'm told you don't lose any quality using avi, but the files are large. My tape is about 20 minutes long, but it keep stopping about half way through. I get no error message, my drive isn't full. I downloaded the tuturiols, but haven't had a chance to watch them yet.
Thanks,
Craig

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:45 am

I forgot to mention, this is the free trial version, don't know if you're restricted on size with this set up???

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:46 am

File size is indeed large with avi (or DV, as VS calls it). 1 hour of video occupies about 13 Gb of hard drive space.
Might be worth looking at your operating system and file system. If the file system is FAT32, there is a potential problem - this can only handle files up to 4 Gb. If you are running XP, you can easily transform the file system to NTFS, which has no such restriction.

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:31 pm

That might be it, brcause it cuts off at a little over 3 gig. I have the sapce on the hard drive, so maybe that;s it. Excuse my ignornace, but what is this NTFS. I am running FAT32

Thanks for the input,
Craig

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:23 pm

DV always means AVI, but AVI doesn't have to use the DV codec. An AVI file is a container for audio and video which can use any available codec, or none (uncompressed data).

As already mentioned, an AVI file using the DV codec consumes about 13GB of disk space per hour. An AVI file recording uncompressed data will require about five times that.

Since FAT32 limits the size of individual files to 4GB or less, it's not well suited for video editing or DVD burning (since a full single-layer DVD will require between 4.4GB and 4.7GB of space).

If you insist on using FAT32, use the Huffyuv lossless codec for capture if your projects aren't that long (~30 minutes). If you need to work with longer videos, you'll have to sacrifice quality for compression efficiency by using a codec such as DIVX, for instance.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:33 pm

or convert your system to NTFS using the information here :-

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

Just in case of problems make sure you have backed up ALL your files first.