Downloaded some video from my camcorder and wondering how many DVDs I'll need when I burn it?

Question

4 hours of stuff and it's taken something like 35 gigs off my hard drive, wondering if the data will be compressed when I burn to disc so I won't need a bunch of DVD discs. Kind of new to this stuff.

Answer 1

One ot two...

Answer 2

Video DVDs are highly compressed, so you don't need 35Gbyte of DVDs  (8 of them).   Assuming that you plan to put all 4 hours on DVD you could possibly get away with 2, though 4 would be more realistic (opinions about video quality vary!).

But, if you've got raw, unedited video, you should assume that 90% of it is either unwatchable or unnecessary.  After editing, you're likely to end up with  less than half an hour of watchable video - that'll easily fit on a single DVD.