Video capture to compressed drive

[thegooddale]

Hi, I was wondering if it was at all possible to capture video to a compressed ntfs drive in windows xp.

Cheers.

 

[CreamCake]

Possible? - yes
Reccomended? - not for analog capture

What kind of capture card do you intend on using, and from what source?

 

[thegooddale]

I am going to capture with firewire from a dvcam deck. Although I am starting to think that perhaps, instead of compressing the whole drive, the best thing to do would be to capture a small piece of footage, then just compress that captured media file with the ntfs compression. Then capture a bit more, then compress - and so on.

 

[wooglin]

Just throwing an idea out, see if it sticks, as I've never played with HD compression.

Can you partition part of the HD and leave it uncompressed as a transfer disk?

 

[CreamCake]

From what I gather, using a firewire deck source is really a digital transfer, not really capture.

But never having done it that way, my thoughts are that you might get it to transfer OK, but working with the video would be a royal pain in the buttocks.

Is this your primary and/or only drive?
Compressing everything on it, especially your OS, will slow your system down significantly.

A few hours of your time is probably more valuable than an additional hard disk!