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Originally posted by charlie6763
Ok, so I've captured and edited the video off of a miniDV and rendered it to a full quality AVI in Pinnacle Studio8. That leaves me with a 6.79 GB file for a 32min, 37sec video. My 250 gig HD is starting to fill-up fast.
At 6.79 GB its obviously to big to burn to a DVD as a raw AVI file so what are my options for archiving files this big without reducing the quality in anyway? Oh yeah and how is Pinnacle able to actually author this same file to a DVD without any problem? Is it reducing the quality of the original raw AVI file when it authors it as a DVD? 
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First off a dvd video is much lesser quality than the raw avi. Secondly I have run into this same problem. There is no solution, To make it smaller your going to lose quality, but that doesen't mean what you have left after making smaller is not going to be sufficient, however it will still be pretty large from my experiments.
So my solution was to record the edited raw avi back to another dv tape, that way I have the original unedited and the edited one as backups. You can recapture the edited one and re encode it fast enough if you had to for some reason.
I also make a super high quality mpeg1 of the edited version so I can go back and grab small pieces of it for trailers or small promo clips if I wanted to.
Otherwise to save the raw avi your just going to have to buy LOTS of big drives or wait a little while longer for the new blue laser DVD's to come out and be affordable. They will hold close to 50 Gigs per disc, but I imagine they will be so expensive to start with it's going to be cheaper to just buy drives.
So at this time it's more logical to just record your edited version back to another DV tape.
Cheers,
BV