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hmmm... in a bit of a pickle. i'm gonna' have over 100gb of video for this family VHS digitizing project i've been doing. i'd like to get it all to fit on a 64gb stick so i don't have to buy larger ones.
i'm recording them at 10mbps with HEVC at 1080p30. it seems from what i've been able to find that might be the best quality i can get while maintaining a low file size. i know that the VHS player is only outputting 480i so it's not like the 1080p is doing much but i wanted to record it in a higher resolution like that to try and minimize the lack of quality. so far, i've gotten some really good quality out of it actually.
do you guys think i could go down to 480p or even 720p with the same/lower bitrate and save on enough file space without having it look bad? or should i just stick to what i'm doing now and get 128gb sticks because it won't get much better?
@maylay I'm making 8 copies and giving them to my family. So that's why I was trying to fit it onto a 64gb drive instead, it's gonna be a bit more pricey to do 128gb lol but I guess worth it.
@maylay that's kinda what I was thinking. Do you know if any programs that will just fit files into a certain file size and automatically choose how to compress them or something? Or do you think I'll have to do it all manually?
@maylay fair enough lol. Animation is a bit different than film so I don't know how much of that would actually help. Does reducing resolution but keeping the same bit rate reduce the file size? I've never actually found that out lol. It doesn't seem like it would.
As it stands I think I'll be just above 100gb. I've still got about 5 tapes left but I don't know how long they are. My general idea is just to try compressing the closest video to an hour and see how much compression I can get per hour, then see if it's worth doing it to everything.
