Newbie considering taking the plunge

[bkester]

I've only just put a deposit on a new computer with a DVD burner and I have yet to even attempt any video editing, so I'm a real newbie to this.

I chose an ATI All-in-Wonder 8500dv card for the purpose of converting all my video tapes to DVD, but is there a definitive answer as to whether it will work well with Snapstream?

Can anyone tell me about disk space allocation? I have about 800 video tapes I was planning to burn to DVD, so I'm wondering how much disk space I would need to archive, say (in round numbers), 1,000 hours of tape on my hard drive using Snapstream?

[SouthPaw42]

Depends On quality.
Lets say you use VHS quality mode.
VHS mode records at 1200000 bits per second.
8 bits to a byte. So VHS mode is 150 kilobytes per second.
So that is 540 Megabytes per Hour.

[bkester]

Wow, that's a lot of disk space.

[MattS]

It's a lot of DVDs too -- around 150, depending on the type of DVD recordable and space allocation you give each one....