Camera - Vegas - DVD - back to Vegas???

skanji wrote on 4/22/2006, 10:20 AM
I am currently rendering about 15 hours worth of video and am quickly running out of space on my hard drive. I've only been using Vegas for a couple of weeks and am not sure if I can do the following:

Render from mini-dv to Vegas and save on hard drive
Burn 2 hour clip onto DVD
When needed re-use clip from DVD to create movies in Vegas

can this be done and if so, how?

thanks

Comments

rs170a wrote on 4/22/2006, 10:46 AM
2 hr. of AVI = 26 GB. 2hr. of MPEG-2 = 4.3 GB.
As you can see, there's some serious compression going on here and you can't get the quality back no matter how hard you try.
Hard drives are so cheap these days that the easiest & simplest solution is to buy another hard drive, either internal or external. Either USB or Firewire will be OK for an external. I bought a 250 GB drive and case last fall for under $200 in Canada. If you're in the USA, it's much cheaper.

Mike
Tattoo wrote on 4/22/2006, 12:09 PM
I'll second the rec for just buying an external hard drive. The cheapest way is to buy an "internal" hard drive and an external enclosure for it, which will have either a USB 2.0 or Firewire interface to your computer. Here's 250GB solution with a USB connection, both from NewEgg.com (probably the best computer website out there!). I love my Seagate drives - they run cool, quiet, and still fast; probably the best drives shipping today. I don't know anything about this enclosure, but it's very favorably reviewed by other users, which is a good sign, especially if it has a lot of reviews. Only $94 for the drive and $35 for the enclosure. Actually, if you've got room in your computer, you can just add this drive in and skip the external enclosure.

Seagate 250GB drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148100

Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145133
JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/22/2006, 9:01 PM
If you don’t want to bother with hard drive storage, just print your final project back to DV tape. Then you can always capture it again at full quality. Not as nice as having the project files on an external hard drive but it’s way better than ripping it back off of a DVD and a tape is only $3.

~jr