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how much of disk space do I need

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Oct 2, 2003, 3:25 PM

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how much of disk space do I need to copy a 2hr movie from VCR to my PC

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Oct 3, 2003, 9:02 AM

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: how much of disk space do I need to copy a 2hr movie from VCR to my PC
It depends on what digital video format you use and how much compression you apply. Uncompressed video will take up about 12GB for a ten minute clip. The DV format will use 2GB of space for every 9 minutes of video. If you capture as MPEG2, you can get two hours or more into less than 5GB. Other formats such as MPEG1 or DivX can give even higher compression. The tradeoff is in quality, of course.
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Doug Graham