Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I'm also a bit unsure of what to do about capturing. I don't want my video to be compressed but I don't think I can handle using up 8 times as much hard drive space than before. (If 30 min = 80 GB) What other options would I have? I wouldn't want any capture method that compresses by smearing detail or pixelizing. Is there anything very close to uncompressed quality that takes up WAY less space.
You could use a lossless codec like huffyuv or Lagarith; 30 minutes of video will compress to about 10-15GB, and since it's lossless, it will be exactly the same quality as uncompressed video. I'm also a bit unsure of what to do about capturing. I don't want my video to be compressed but I don't think I can handle using up 8 times as much hard drive space than before. (If 30 min = 80 GB) What other options would I have? I wouldn't want any capture method that compresses by smearing detail or pixelizing. Is there anything very close to uncompressed quality that takes up WAY less space.
However, if your Pyro box is a DV device then you have no choice - you're stuck with using the DV codec.