Computer Memory needed to save videotaped recital digital?
February 16th, 2008 | by computermemory |
blindevolution asked:
I recorded on a camcorder (sony or panosonic I think)… a dance recital. It is about 1.5 hours in length. I want to make DVD’s of this, but the file will not record onto my laptop, because there isn’t enough memory available. How big do you think the file is? outside of recording it right onto a DVD, do you think an 8 GB flash/jump drive would be able to hold it? or is that way too small? Yes I am completely computer illiterate
FORREST
I recorded on a camcorder (sony or panosonic I think)… a dance recital. It is about 1.5 hours in length. I want to make DVD’s of this, but the file will not record onto my laptop, because there isn’t enough memory available. How big do you think the file is? outside of recording it right onto a DVD, do you think an 8 GB flash/jump drive would be able to hold it? or is that way too small? Yes I am completely computer illiterate
FORREST
2 Responses to “Computer Memory needed to save videotaped recital digital?”
By MikeTwo on Feb 17, 2008 | Reply
If you are using Mini DV, when copying to a computer it is about 3 GIGABYTES for 9 minutes of video.
So an 8 gig flash/jump drive is not enough. You would need to buy a pretty big external usb drive, but they are pretty cheap now. You can get a 250 gig external usb drive for around $100.
By BRIAN C on Feb 18, 2008 | Reply
I hour of DVavi is about 13Gb - so 1.5 hours will need about 20Gb - plus another 10-15 for editing and producing the mpeg2 file which is what you will eventually burn to your DVD.
so all in all you should be looking for storage of around 50GB to complete your project.
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