harddrive space and movies

by Deactivated5924 • 5 Jul 2007, 20:54 • Journals
I have never made a long movie with 200 fps, so this is new to me - I ran out of harddrive space fast, even if I did have 150 gig free.
How do I make room for more tgas? If I make the current ones to uncompressed avi they're pretty much as big as the raw tga's, no?
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plekter 5 Jul 2007, 21:54
delete your porn collection
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 21:55
not enough, one clip of a frag is 10-15gb and 1 tga 3,8 mb

(r_mode 8; cl_avidemo 200)
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plekter 5 Jul 2007, 21:57
then buy an extra harddisk?
Or develop a leet virtualdub plugin that deletes the .tga-files on the fly while rendering the uncompressed avi?
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 21:58
I doubt all the guys who made their movies with 200fps have all bought like 1000gb's worth of harddrives, there has to be some other way.
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plekter 5 Jul 2007, 21:59
i have 500 gb, and i don't consider it much at all.. It's average.
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Deactivated5347 5 Jul 2007, 21:59
make part for part?
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 22:01
Is there some way to fuse them togheter later and not lose quality?
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Deactivated5347 5 Jul 2007, 22:01
sure, vdub
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 22:03
you can fuse shit in vdub?
keep in mind i'll render it @ x264 in megui
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Deactivated5347 5 Jul 2007, 22:05
1. its what i just said
2. why would i care?
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 22:08
ah, it's just that if I fuse them togheter later with vdub don't I need to render it again? I just don't get it, soz -_-
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Deactivated5347 5 Jul 2007, 22:14
ofc u have to, it will take the same space as the original files do, but it will be pretty fast this time
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Ruipperi 10 Jul 2007, 22:24
stop being that arrogant bitch and really try to help someone.
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Sweex 5 Jul 2007, 21:55
Go to MS-DOS and typ this.

Format C:
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dunno 5 Jul 2007, 21:58
Age: 15 ( 9 June 1992 )
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Sweex 5 Jul 2007, 21:58
Suck me?
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 21:59
|_| <-------------- door
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kiss 5 Jul 2007, 22:02
I doubt you have smth to get sucked
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dunno 5 Jul 2007, 21:59
it's how it works, u need more space, if u want more tga's per second
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banaan 5 Jul 2007, 22:01
Fredd, i recommend you to buy a Extern-hd 1TB

its around 180 euro's :<
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Nizou 5 Jul 2007, 22:02
I spent over 320 gigs with Random Spam (16:40 long, if I remember correctly, something like that anyway).

Had 200 fps avi files at 1280x720 resolution and compressed with Huffyuv lossless codec. With completely raw clips.. I wouldn't dare to even guess. If you want to spare some hard drive space, you could use tga_hook and capture the clips as jpg's, or convert the captured tga's with Photoshop, whatever.
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 22:05
Hm. you recorded at 1280x720? not an option for me, LCD native @ r_mode 8 and it has better quality when you resize it to 1280x720 later, actually..

can I render the tga's to huffyuv right in vdub ? and then huffyuv again in vegas or what?
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Split 5 Jul 2007, 22:40
I don't think resizing affects your quality... You'll just use:

r_mode -1

r_customheight 720
r_customwidth 1280
r_fullscreen 0

And it's as good as... dno
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 23:12
"LCD native @ r_mode 8"
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Split 6 Jul 2007, 00:30
So what ? It doesn't matter.
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Deactivated5924 6 Jul 2007, 10:39
actually resizing does affect quality, the same way it would affect a pictures quality if you resize it to smaller.
though I would have to record @ window mode then, eh..
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Nizou 6 Jul 2007, 14:32
Yes, I recorded with 1280x720 and I have a TFT monitor as well, with its optimum resolution being 1280x1024, so I don't see where's the problem with that. But please, whatever you do, DON'T capture with 1280x1024 and later resize it to 1280x720. So sick of seeing these dwarf movies! :p

And yeah, you can use Huffyuv with Vdub.
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Deactivated5924 6 Jul 2007, 15:09
it's not a dwarf movie if you do it right ;)
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Nizou 6 Jul 2007, 15:50
If you resize from 1280x1024 to 1280x720 it will be a dwarf movie, unless you want to cut off a part of the picture.
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ogrec 10 Jul 2007, 22:54
it is because resizing isnt the right way, croping out is. listen to nizou.
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Kristoffersson 5 Jul 2007, 22:09
Make your movie in two parts, finalize the first part before you start on the second part. When both parts are completely done just put them together in Vegas or whatever.
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Deactivated5924 5 Jul 2007, 22:12
can you explain how do I put them togheter later? If I re-render them like in vegas, I won't be able to keep the quality.. no?
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Kristoffersson 5 Jul 2007, 22:15
Dunno, just said what came to my mind :) I've only made a small 2 min movie and that was a long time ago.
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Gaso 5 Jul 2007, 23:16
If you compress the movie with lossless codecs, you don't lose any quality when re-encoding.

The best method of saving space is to compress captured TGAs using some lossless codec. There are a lot of lossless codecs out there, Huffyuv being the most popular choice. Some lossless codecs compress better than others, but often the heavier compression requires more decoding power, which makes the codecs unsuitable for realtime editing. Codecs with heavier compression algorithms are mainly used for storage purposes.

Lagarith Lossless Video Codec is, at the moment, the best codec for editing purposes: it compresses better than Huffyuv, Alparysoft or CorePNG, and it is the fastest encoder around, when using 24-bit RGB colour space.
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ogrec 10 Jul 2007, 22:52
afaik et can not capture screens in 24-bit color space
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