I did some capturing this weekend with the trial version , soon to buy neo HDV. I captured one whole HDV tape My settings were......

Preferences
automatically convert to AVI- checked
quality high - checked
framerate automatic- checked
I enabled smart rendering but i think im gonna try this off with a recapture

resize video - none
split file on scene changes


1 tape was 95 gig. I couldnt believe it. I think its because i enabled smart rendering. Should i have that off? 95 gig seems alot. Also some of the AVI files captured played back on WMP classic alittle chopy. Why is that?

thanx Chris

90 gigs and hour seems very high, Check the preferences to see if you told it to save the original files. NeoHDV does capture the original HDV stream. and with certain settings, it keeps the .m2t file it renders the .avi file from. I do not have it keep those files.

I have not actually checked out current file sizes. Back a couple years ago, they were saying 30 to 40 gigs per hour. That seems to be consistent with what I am experiening these days, though I haven't actually measured it. I also understand smart rendering does add to file size, but I was thinking just be experience that may add about 10%.

I have had situations where HDLink (the NeoHDV capture utilility) would go into a mode where it re rendered over and over again, but haven't had that occur lately with new builds. HDLink is touchy in how you stop your input recording, at least for me. I can stop it by hitting the camera stop, or the shuttle stop above the start button on the GUI. Sometime I have hit the button under the shuttle controls on the GUI, and that seems to send HDLink into a tizzy....

Another interesting thing is that once a complete a capture session, and render is completed. I have to exit out of HDLink, and restart it to make further captures. Not sure why, just an issue I notice.