vhs to pc via mini dv taking up a lot of hd space

i have tried copying some video footage from vcr to pc via my sony dcr 330 dv camcorder using firewire..i have copied about 2 hours of footage to my computer which has taken up a lot of hard drive space approx 35 gb for 2 hours.

i am using ulead v/s 7 for capture. is it normal to take up so much hd space or am i doing something wrong..

thanks

abs

 

About 13 or 14Gb an hour for DV (which is what your analog footage is beig converted to) is normal.

DV is compressed at that rate too ! Uncompressed .avi would take up even more

 

Yep! approx 15Gb per hour of DV footage is right. Video editing on the PC does eat up disk space, but with 120Gb drives for about £60 this is no longer too much of a problem. Also don't forget to allow at least double the space used for capture so you still have space for editing and file conversion etc. So 2 hours of footage should really be on a disk of at least 60Gb.

Mark.

 

thanks for the replies guys