Movie Maker 2 Capture File Size

[Bruce]

I'm trying to capture VHS movies into MovieMaker 2. I selected the
"Video for local playback (1.5 Mbps)" setting video setting. The tape
seems to be captured as I expected (about 600MB for an hour of video),
but MovieMaker 2 seems to think that it is using up much more of my
hard drive space because the available free hard drive space decreases
very rapidly. Since the tape I was capturing is 6 hours long, I
thought it would take 3.6 GB of harddrive space. However, MovieMaker 2
stopped the capture after about 2.5 hours saying that I had run out of
disk space.

My harddrive has over 30GB of free space so I'm not sure why
MovieMaker 2 thinks I ran out of space. I would have expected that I
had plenty of space. As I watched MovieMaker 2 capture the video I
noticed that the free space available decreases much more rapidly that
the amount of space used in the capture.

Do I have something set incorrectly? Why does MovieMaker 2 think I
don't have available free space when it seems to me that I should have
plenty?

Thanks!

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Bruce,

Is your hard drive using NTFS file system to handle the larger files?

PapaJohn

"Bruce" > wrote in message
om...
> I'm trying to capture VHS movies into MovieMaker 2. I selected the
> "Video for local playback (1.5 Mbps)" setting video setting. The tape
> seems to be captured as I expected (about 600MB for an hour of video),
> but MovieMaker 2 seems to think that it is using up much more of my
> hard drive space because the available free hard drive space decreases
> very rapidly. Since the tape I was capturing is 6 hours long, I
> thought it would take 3.6 GB of harddrive space. However, MovieMaker 2
> stopped the capture after about 2.5 hours saying that I had run out of
> disk space.
>
> My harddrive has over 30GB of free space so I'm not sure why
> MovieMaker 2 thinks I ran out of space. I would have expected that I
> had plenty of space. As I watched MovieMaker 2 capture the video I
> noticed that the free space available decreases much more rapidly that
> the amount of space used in the capture.
>
> Do I have something set incorrectly? Why does MovieMaker 2 think I
> don't have available free space when it seems to me that I should have
> plenty?
>
> Thanks!

[Bruce]

PapaJohn, yes, I'm using the NTFS file system. The problem doesn't
seem to be the 2GB limit of FAT vs NTFS, but rather that my free disk
space seems to decrease faster than the size of the captured file in
MovieMaker2. For example, I started with 30.0 GB of disk space when I
was capturing a file in MovieMaker2. After 1 hour, MM2 said it had
captured 600MB of video, but it also said I only had about 15 GB of
disk space left. That is where I'm confused. How does the 600MB of
video captured translate to the 15 GB of disk space used? Thanks!


"PapaJohn \(MVP\)" > wrote in message >...
> Bruce,
>
> Is your hard drive using NTFS file system to handle the larger files?
>
> PapaJohn
>

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

MM2 first makes a temporary file as it captures. When the capturing is done,
it copies the file to the final location and deletes the temporary one. I'm
guessing - maybe the temporary file is a DV-AVI one that would account for
that file size.

PapaJohn

"Bruce" > wrote in message
om...
> PapaJohn, yes, I'm using the NTFS file system. The problem doesn't
> seem to be the 2GB limit of FAT vs NTFS, but rather that my free disk
> space seems to decrease faster than the size of the captured file in
> MovieMaker2. For example, I started with 30.0 GB of disk space when I
> was capturing a file in MovieMaker2. After 1 hour, MM2 said it had
> captured 600MB of video, but it also said I only had about 15 GB of
> disk space left. That is where I'm confused. How does the 600MB of
> video captured translate to the 15 GB of disk space used? Thanks!
>
>
> "PapaJohn \(MVP\)" > wrote in message
>...
> > Bruce,
> >
> > Is your hard drive using NTFS file system to handle the larger files?
> >
> > PapaJohn
> >

[Bruce]

Thanks. As a follow up question...what would be best practice for
transferring home movies on VHS to DVD? I have 30+ VHS tapes of home
movies, each with 6 hours of video, that I would like to put onto
DVDs. I'd like to make the best use of space while keeping reasonable
quality. I'm using MovieMaker2 to capture the video and will be using
Sonic MyDVD4 to burn to DVD. Any suggestions on settings within MM2
for best capture and/or suggestions for the most efficient way to move
the movies to DVD? The size limitation I'm running into seems to
suggest I have to break up my home movies into approximately 2 hour
segments so that MM2 has enough room for the temporary file before
converting to the compressed format. Anything else I should think
about as I'm doing this? Thanks!



"PapaJohn \(MVP\)" > wrote in message >...
> MM2 first makes a temporary file as it captures. When the capturing is done,
> it copies the file to the final location and deletes the temporary one. I'm
> guessing - maybe the temporary file is a DV-AVI one that would account for
> that file size.

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I recently made a DVD using DV-AVI files as inputs, and then another one
using the same movies but in WMV formats. The WMV files were 10% the size of
the DV-AVI files.

But the quality of both DVDs were so close that I'd have to flip a coin to
judge them. For computer based playback the WMV files were superior.

But, in your case - the bottom line is that the same amount fit on the DVD.
So I guess it's more the settings in your DVD software - mine was MyDVD
4.5 - that determine how much fits on the DVD, not the sizes of the files
from Movie Maker.

PapaJohn

"Bruce" > wrote in message
m...
> Thanks. As a follow up question...what would be best practice for
> transferring home movies on VHS to DVD? I have 30+ VHS tapes of home
> movies, each with 6 hours of video, that I would like to put onto
> DVDs. I'd like to make the best use of space while keeping reasonable
> quality. I'm using MovieMaker2 to capture the video and will be using
> Sonic MyDVD4 to burn to DVD. Any suggestions on settings within MM2
> for best capture and/or suggestions for the most efficient way to move
> the movies to DVD? The size limitation I'm running into seems to
> suggest I have to break up my home movies into approximately 2 hour
> segments so that MM2 has enough room for the temporary file before
> converting to the compressed format. Anything else I should think
> about as I'm doing this? Thanks!
>
>
>
> "PapaJohn \(MVP\)" > wrote in message
>...
> > MM2 first makes a temporary file as it captures. When the capturing is
done,
> > it copies the file to the final location and deletes the temporary one.
I'm
> > guessing - maybe the temporary file is a DV-AVI one that would account
for
> > that file size.