@1940

Hi.

You chose to use uncompressed AVI files which is fine and valid but as you have seen produces huge files.

Any subsequent compression of such files when converting to another file format can also produce large files but that doesn't seem that excessive to me.

Whether you really need that degree of quality or not depending on the source files though is debatable. You can never make the quality better by using more data to record. In fact a lot of the data within an unnecessarily large file may contain no useful information at all.

Most of us have to experiment to find our own personal sweet spot that reflects accurately the files we are editing. There are no magic 'one setting works for all instances' solutions.

Without a precise idea of what you are doing or some examples of files it is difficult to say whether the file size is excessive or not. I upload some of my videos to more than one site and the size of the files are sometimes limited by the upload rules. So one site may get a file of say 4GB for four minutes of video while another I do the same file but it comes to 740MBs. If you watched both files on both sites using a 1920 x 1080 monitor you would be hard pressed to see a difference in the two files.

Ray.