April 16, 2008

How many Mini DV 60 min tapes will fit onto 1 recordable DVD (4.8GB)?


From your comment:
This is being recorded on a Mini DV camcorder and backing it up on the DVD of the video, via a PC, and not only data backup.
Assuming that we are using a reseonable resolution and sound quality.
Thanks!

None.

An hour DV tape downloaded to your computer holds 12GB of memory - more than twice as much as can be accommodated on a single layer DVD. So there is no way to store the raw data from a 60m DV tape to a DVD.

However, when you come to burn the DVD and watch it on your DVD player crude (AVI) is converted into MPEG movies and compressed. Your DV tape 60 minutes and then uses only about 4 gigabytes, and can fit on one DVD, as the quality complete a single layer DVD will hold 73 minutes of video.

Sufficiently reduce the quality and you can adapt more than 5 hours - but whether it would be useful to look at is another matter.

Hope that helps

Brendan

PS: The DVD can say it is 4.7 or 4.8GB, but the actual space available for combustion is only 4.38GB


4 comments:

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
As you say, it depends on what the bitrate you use. Sage purely computers, a Mini DV cassette 60 minutes contains about twice as much data as a standard DVD recordable done. Blank DVD manufacturers usually state their 4.7Gb DVD as DVD 120 minutes, whereas if you go by this metric, then 2 bands will fit. More compression you use, the more you hear. If your DVD player will play DivX DVD then you can squeeze even more there to a reasonable resolution and good quality. 1000kbps with the DivX codec is a very good resolution, and you will be able to squeeze 10 hours of content on a DVD-R at this rate.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
all depends on your compression.

Whatever software you use on your PC has its own file format standard (default), which he recorded under your digital media.

What you can do is first register your DV tape on your PC, and your program should give you an option to choose the type of file you want to save the file as. It should also give you an approximate size that the file will be after the backup. You should note that different types of files are different sizes - not really because of the quality of picture and sound, but because of the compression.

So, depending, you can find between 1 to 4 Mini DV cassettes fitting on a single DVD.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
Approximately 2 hours of high-quality digital video (one double-sided, double 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 video (MPEG-1) compressed video respectfully. If you want to save a 60-minute mini-dv tape without compression, you will not be able to store a little more than 20 minutes per DVD disc. Be aware that the compression of MPEG your tapes will result in a loss of quality if you are planning to publish later in the sequence of a program like Adobe Premiere, Make Movie, etc.

backup guy said...

(From old blog's comments)
, and I tried a bunch of Registration was 12GB - high quality .. Not sure

its holding in dvd.