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I am thinking of getting a DV ( Firewire) card how much hard drive will I need to transfer about 60 mins of digital video.

Ravi

it depends on the quality of the recording what size you record it at, but I guess a fairly high number of gigabytes, not sure though, mpegs are about 10x bigger than AVIs which are 740mb for a 2 hr film so as a complete guess 7 gigs.

I got myself a dazzle card in Dixons in Dublin for £50, £30 cheaper than in PCworld in England.

<OB>

IIRC DV uses about 2GB for 5min. So for an hour you`ll need at least 24GB.

You`ll need to check how the disk is formatted as some formats only allow files up to 4GB which means breaking the video into chunks. I need to convert my data partition some time for this. I think you need NTFS rather than Fat or Fat32.

See http://makeashorterlink.com/?O67A43FE (Microsoft)

Steve

Using Ulead MediaStudio Pro it states that it uses about 3,533 KBytes/sec on a DV-LP recording. That`s about 12 GBytes/hour.
Use Windows2000 and NTFS disk system, better handling grabbing video (ie. better multi-tasking).

A good 7,200rpm 40GByte (or more) IDE Harddrive will sort you out. I go for IBM drives, relatively reliable as they are cheaper than most.

BB.