DVD Writer and Camcorder resources

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Another suggestion on the 'how to get stuff in' from your camcorder front, Morselady - & since you were just on about transposing VHS videos to DVD on another thread, them too !

[MorseLady]

Noo Noo wrote

What you do need is scads of hard drive space.

I got talking to someone in the PC Store today who claimed to know a lot about video editing. He said you need the biggest hard drive you can afford because transferring from DV camcorder requires 4MB persecond of movie time and for converting VCR tapes to DVD unless you compress to MPEG. Is this true?

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Un-compressed video can be pretty big .. which is what compression is for ? once you've got a certain amount of space all you need to be is organised - that's what your dvd writer is for isn't it ? You don't keep it all uncompressed for ever of course, you capture some & then transfer it etc..

You did tell him you already had - how much is it on this machine 250 gig ?

I think you are getting like me about all of this - confus-ed - so try this link
Transfer or Copy from Video Tape to DVD which covers the whole idea

[MorseLady]

At the moment only my husband has a new machine, I have yet to order mine and I cannot make up my mind how much I cannot afford but I know what I would like

My husband has a 150GB SATA 7200rpm HDD which I shall partition once we have it up and running and he has played with it a bit. I will create a very large DATA drive for his swap file, data and image storage and if his video software can be so configured for buffering up the DVD writer. The PC comes bundled with Pinnacle 9 but I might buy the new Roxio 6 revisited for us.

I will be ordering as much hard drive space as I can afford and probably twin 160GB SATA or maybe one 250GB SATA or could I do with even more? Hope not as I am really at the top of my budget with the configuration I have decided on.

I have read the system requirtements on that link you gave me, con-fused, many thanks, and I see a TV card is required. I will add one to my cart or put one in my machine later and as the best VCR is down here in the room my workstations is in I will do the converting, good excuse to get out of my husband doing it as he will never learn all that.

I have since been to the Evesham website where I have my configursation stored and they do not seem to offer a TV card. I do know that the machines use the Intel 915G chipset and have S video out but not sure if that implies it has with

an analogue capture card (usually referred to as a TV card or video card)

specified on the link you gave me. The machines have lots of spare PCI slots so installing a card will not be a problem and Evesham have said that it is OK to open the machine during Warranty so long as you run it past them first so they can advise if you are likely to harm your machine.

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and I see a TV card is required.I will add one to my cart or put one in my machine later ..

Its one of the ways - the thing I showed above, will do it too - for about the same price as a tv card via usb, & we were looking at an 'all singing version' (of above {capturing via USB?}) on another thread ?

As for 'required' HD space, I'd personally say 150mb is plenty, after that 'bonus'