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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
Sooo... don't pull off all 90 minutes of tape at once - pull off those 3 minutes I wanna see. 180 seconds ~= 6.67GB by your earlier numbers.  |
True, but it's a hassle to pull just a few segments off since the tape isn't random access... in fact pulling video off the tape just sucks in general, regardless of how much you're pulling... it's just a crappy, tedious procedure.
(Why don't they make video cameras with hard drives built in and save directly to MPEG-2 or something?)
Plus I've only got about a gig of free space on the computer that's got the fire-wire connection, so I'm gonna have to go and nuke a bunch of stuff just to do the 180 seconds of footage. I figure I need a big hard drive for my XBox as well as one for my server, so I might as well just go grab a pair of 250GB drives, and then move the server's 120GB drive into my workstation to use as a video scratch disk.
It's just a matter of finding the time to do it... which is why nothing gets done, I'm all outta time. In fact tonight I need to put together a flyer for the SECCS track day so I can advertize at the next SCCA meeting, Wed I have to go to said SCCA meeting, Thurs is our weekly SECCS meet, Friday I'm prepping the car for the AutoX this weekend. So it looks like I might have time around the beginning of next week to deal with my hard-drive issues. Sorry that video's not too high on my priority list.
