This is while recording from a Mini DV camcorder and backing it up on DVD as video, via PC software, not just data backup.
Presuming we're using a reseonable resolution and sound quality.
Thanks!
2006-12-06 01:20:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Camcorders
Like you say, it depends on what bitrate you use. Purely data-wise, a 60 minute Mini DV tape holds about twice as much data as a standard recordable DVD does. Blank DVD manufacturers usually state their 4.7Gb DVD's as being 120 minute DVD's so if you go by that metric, then 2 tapes will fit. The more compression you use, the more you can fit. If your DVD player will play DivX DVD's then you could squeeze even more on there at a reasonable resolution and sound quality. 1000kbps with the DivX codec is very good resolution and you'll be able to squeeze about 10 hours worth of content onto a DVD-R at that rate.
2006-12-06 01:37:14 · answer #1 · answered by Geoff S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None.
A one hour DV tape uploaded to your computer occupies 12GB of memory - over twice as much as can be accommodated on a single layer DVD. So there is no way of storing the raw data from a 60m DV tape on a DVD.
However when you to come to burn the DVD for watching on your DVD player the raw (AVI) footage gets converted to MPEG and compressed. Your 60 minute DV tape then only uses approx 4GB and can fit on one DVD, as at full quality a single layer DVD will hold 73 minutes of Video.
Reduce the quality sufficiently and you can fit over 5 hours - but whether it would be worth watching is another matter.
Hope that helps
Brendan
PS: The DVD may say it is 4.7 or 4.8GB but the actual space available for burning is only 4.38GB
2006-12-07 23:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by Brendan E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Approximately 2 hours of high-quality digital video (a double-sided, dual-layer disc can hold about 8 hours of high-quality video, or 30 hours of VHS quality video). This is the standard format for DVD(MPEG-2) and VHS(MPEG-1) compressed video respectfully. If you want to back up a 60-minute mini-dv tape, without compression, you will only be able to store a little more than 20-minutes per DVD disc. Be aware that compressing your tapes via MPEG will result in lost quality if you plan to later edit the footage in a program such as Adobe Premiere, Movie Make, etc.
2006-12-06 01:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on your compression.
Whatever software you're using on your PC has it's own standard file type (default) which it saves your digital media under.
What you can do is first record your DV tape onto your PC, and your program should give you an option to choose which file type you want to use to save the file under. It should also give you an approximate size that the file will be after saving. You should notice that different file types will be different sizes - not really because of picture and sound quality, but because of compression.
So depending, you'd be looking at between 1 - 4 Mini DV tapes fitting onto a single DVD.
2006-12-06 01:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by Mister 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-30 05:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried it and one tape's recording was 12GB - high quality..
not sure it can fit in to dvd.
2006-12-07 02:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by Inquistive_man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋