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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil Grubb" data-source="post: 1240979" data-attributes="member: 11055">On my hi-def camcorder (a Sony HDR-SR10 - I don't use it much for bird video) the storage cost is around 55 MB per minute of video in MPEG-2 hi-def mode. This is a compressed format. It will depend on the format the camera stores the video in - uncompressed formats are much more storage-hungry but you don't lose any detail.I think you will be fine for storage with that for now. The other factor is having enough memory on your PC for it to be able to hold and manipulate the video while you edit it. I would suggest 2GB RAM is a bare minimum.Neil</blockquote>