How big is needed in HDD if i transfer a 60 minute Video recording MiniDV to a PC?

try shoot 1 min of video then transfer, then x60.

Thinking of doing that, but i havent install my firewire card........so trying to estimate the HDD first b4 opening the pc

wiki says 13 Gb la

A 60-minute MiniDV tape will hold approximately 13 Gigabytes of data in this form of usage as the DV video format has a constant data rate of 3.6 Megabytes per second (3.6 MB/s × 60 seconds × 60 minutes = 12,960 MB per hour, divided by 1024 = 12.66 GB per hour).[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV

thanks bro !

13gb ar?
wow..that is a lot....
but can i know what kind of video format?
avi? mpg?

maybe can compress them while transfering? (encoding on the fly?)
still noob in videocam

i assume u r transfering the raw video data...
ive use miniDV -> PC...it takes arnd 20gb of space for 60mins...=s

yup raw from miniDV. will allocate 20 gigs.

You will need approximately 13GB of HDD space for the RAW DV data and another 5GB to convert it to DVD video as well as about 5GB of temporary space to be used during the conversion.

All in all, you will need at least 23GB of HDD space to fully process 60 minutes of DV data to DVD video.

What's the best way in terms of software, video format, quality to convert the 60 minutes of dv to DVD?

I've tried to convert it to VCD but too many settings and the output quality is not that great at all. Probably i din choose the right settings?

Any advice?