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Taking up to much space.

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I am a coach, and trying to make a highlight video of all my teams footage throughout the season. the problem is they are all on DVD and there is about 15 of them I only have 20gb of space on my harddrve. I have ripped two dvds but kept only a total of 3min from both dvds the problem is that 3 min of clips have taken 18gb of space. I am quite confused and have never done this before can I have a hand please
 
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3 minutes shouldnt be 17 gb, have you emptied the trash? also were you using full quality when ripping them or did you push the quality down
 

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Video takes up a large amount of disk space. You will most likely need large disk drive. There is a chart that you can find in most video editting books, that will tell you have much space a minute of video will take. I tried to do a quick search but, it came up with books to llok at. My books are in boxes in the garage, so I can not place my hand on it at the moment.
 
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Could it be that if i rip an entire dvd and only take parts of it while deleting the rest of the movie does the full file size stay on there.
 
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I think that you ripped them at too large of a quailty. but you can always purchase an external HDD to save all your stuff do that its not in you computer.
 
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So if i only use part of a clip like a :30 second clip of a 1hr dvd it still going to be the same size of the orginal dvd. That doesn't make sense, wouldnt it be that :30 second worth of space.
 

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