by alternatefutures » Sun Jul 14, 2002 2:31 pm
Cool, a Premiere Frameserver... I could use something like that!
Anyway, this is what you do (short of getting a new harddrive). Rip only one episode off the DVD at a time and convert using AVISynth or VFAPI and open it in a video editor of your choice. Here, select only the clips that you want and encode them as HuffYUV clips and then delete the original VOBs. Now, if you want an obscene ammount of footage from the episode it would be more space efficient to just work off the original VOB, but this should save you a lot of disk space. Now, just edit your video in segments. When you get done with one segment encode it as HuffYUV and blow away the source files. You may also want to consider cropping (not scaling) the video souce to 704X480, as really you'll only be losing blackstrips on the side and it will save you some space. (Ideally you'd be able to add them back later on, but if not, no biggie)