Oh....much, much, much, much larger. Uncompressed raw DV footage is about 13gb per hour (I think that's right--). I then encoded it to quicktime, shrunk it, etc., to get it down to 120mb
You'll have lots of fun with your camcorder!
You have a firewire card right? You'll need that to get footage into your computer. Also, lots of harddrive space!
quote:Originally posted by Hotdognz:
Thanks BBQ, as luck happens im getting a MiniDV digital cam this week .
Was the AVI movie smaller in footprint tham the .mov format ?? or was it larger
[ March 12, 2003, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: BBQ ]
FB Movie featuring TrackIR
Re: FB Movie featuring TrackIR
Im buying one with a firewire port on it, it will only be DVin but it also has S-video on it so that means I should be able to hook it up to the S-video on my 9700 pro ??.
To do all the converting stuff from AVI to MOV what softwear did you use ?? was it free ?? if not is there FREE stuff around, the reason for the MiniDV cam is I want to send home videos back to New Zeland from the UK on CD so looks like I will be able to use this stuff for that too as i didnt know AVI files were so large.
To do all the converting stuff from AVI to MOV what softwear did you use ?? was it free ?? if not is there FREE stuff around, the reason for the MiniDV cam is I want to send home videos back to New Zeland from the UK on CD so looks like I will be able to use this stuff for that too as i didnt know AVI files were so large.
Re: FB Movie featuring TrackIR
Make sure your camera is PAL or NTSC, I don't know which standard is used in New Zealand. Tell the salesperson what you want to do, and make sure they sell you the right one. You won't be able to view NTSC footage in NZ, I don't think--but if you are just making CD's, it should matter--it's just the raw tapes, that would have to be in the correct format.
TMPenc is shareware, and is an excellent encoder. You can find it online..don't have the link right in front of me.
quote:Originally posted by Hotdognz:
Im buying one with a firewire port on it, it will only be DVin but it also has S-video on it so that means I should be able to hook it up to the S-video on my 9700 pro ??.
To do all the converting stuff from AVI to MOV what softwear did you use ?? was it free ?? if not is there FREE stuff around, the reason for the MiniDV cam is I want to send home videos back to New Zeland from the UK on CD so looks like I will be able to use this stuff for that too as i didnt know AVI files were so large.
TMPenc is shareware, and is an excellent encoder. You can find it online..don't have the link right in front of me.
quote:Originally posted by Hotdognz:
Im buying one with a firewire port on it, it will only be DVin but it also has S-video on it so that means I should be able to hook it up to the S-video on my 9700 pro ??.
To do all the converting stuff from AVI to MOV what softwear did you use ?? was it free ?? if not is there FREE stuff around, the reason for the MiniDV cam is I want to send home videos back to New Zeland from the UK on CD so looks like I will be able to use this stuff for that too as i didnt know AVI files were so large.
Re: FB Movie featuring TrackIR
Thanks BBQ im buying a PAL one as its supported in NZ too (We use PAL).
Ill look for that softwear on the net, cant be hard to find using a search engine.
Ill look for that softwear on the net, cant be hard to find using a search engine.