aglio412

I have a JVC GR-DVL815 DV camcorder that's giving me some trouble with windows XP. the camera is recognized (as a generic AVC compliant DV Camcorder) and i can pull video into premiere or other video capture/editing programs...however, when i try to capture video as anything other than a DV/1394 direct pull (HUGE file size) it craps out. i've done some research and it seems that most people can't even get their older JVC 1394 cameras to work with XP, so i consider myself lucky in the respect that i can actually control it and pull video from it in an uncompressed format. so i guess my primary question is what file size should i expect when pulling from the cam directly into premiere? right now, the files end up being about 4-5megs per 1 second. is that normal? if my camera was 100% compatible with XP, could i expect to pull bigger chucnks of video at smaller sizes? i've never used a DV cam w/ 1394 (firewire) before so maybe i'm panicking over nothing. just wondering if i should be able to capture at a smaller quality/size. thanks.

Joshua

Try using windows movie maker for wsf or wma files? Those and asf are usually pretty small. Personally, I stick with mpg. Pick up a dvd burner and you don't need to worry about it...

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aglio412

wish i could...the cam won't work with movie maker b/c it's not 100% supported by XP...so i'm stuck pulling the dv directly onto the HD...which takes alot of space, but seems like it's my only option. can always compress it from there...

spigidygak

Expect about 12.5 GB per hour of DV video. I don't think you want to compress on the fly for capturing, it takes a lot of cpu load to do that on the fly and I don't know anyone who does that. It is much better to capture at DV work with it then compress it when you're done. Video just doesn't work well compressed first.