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Xayd · 06-05-2003, 04:43 AM

Portable hard drive - no, it's too slow you're gonna lose frames

The reason is it's not encoding the video in any way, it's coming across as basically an uncompressed AVI which is (as you can see) quite large in filesize

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Is there a way to compress it? You're not actually capturing when you send the file from the camera to the computer, it's just a file transfer, the file has already been "captured" on the camera.

Perhaps someone else knows of a program that can cache and re-encode DV as it's transferred, but I personally don't know of any such application that will work for the function you require independant of a rather expensive hardware encoder (or a software encoder that would be less expensive than a new hard drive

).

I would suggest a bigger hard drive.

Even assuming you managed to get the video to your hard drive, you're gonna fill it just by storing the clip, you don't have any room left to encode it to something else.

20 gigs just isn't enough for digital video imo.

It'll be plenty cheaper on your part to buy the hard drive space and use the free/cheap software out there to encode with (such as Xvid for MPEG4 via VirtualDub, or TMPGENC for MPEG1/2), rather than spend the money on software and a hardware encoder.

06-05-2003, 04:43 AM	#2
Xayd Member (13 bit) Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: nowhere.com Posts: 4,819	Portable hard drive - no, it's too slow you're gonna lose frames The reason is it's not encoding the video in any way, it's coming across as basically an uncompressed AVI which is (as you can see) quite large in filesize . Is there a way to compress it? You're not actually capturing when you send the file from the camera to the computer, it's just a file transfer, the file has already been "captured" on the camera. Perhaps someone else knows of a program that can cache and re-encode DV as it's transferred, but I personally don't know of any such application that will work for the function you require independant of a rather expensive hardware encoder (or a software encoder that would be less expensive than a new hard drive ). I would suggest a bigger hard drive. Even assuming you managed to get the video to your hard drive, you're gonna fill it just by storing the clip, you don't have any room left to encode it to something else. 20 gigs just isn't enough for digital video imo. It'll be plenty cheaper on your part to buy the hard drive space and use the free/cheap software out there to encode with (such as Xvid for MPEG4 via VirtualDub, or TMPGENC for MPEG1/2), rather than spend the money on software and a hardware encoder. Last edited by Xayd; 06-05-2003 at 04:51 AM.