I'll give that a try. I have a feeling due to the amount of work I have in front of me, I'm going to end up needing a 500 gig HD. But for the moment, size doesn't matter during this testing phase. But if I can get away with using compression and actually be able to play it back, that would be ideal since real-time playback while editing is important for this project. Basically, what I'm doing is preserving videos for an obscure band that I've been following for these past 17 years. So there will be a lot of 3-5 minute vids I'll be working with.

Anyway, I'll ffdshow a try. Hopefully, it will help.