50 gb for 5 minute long video?

[Tiqon]

So i wanted to make a hour long video but what happend is it stopped recording at 5 minutes then i checked the folders size and it was 50 gb i dont know if this is normal or not ive seen youtuber record 2 hour long videos if anyone knows how to reduce the storage please tell me id appreciate that

[Malix]

if you use lossless codec, you will get big files, no way around that.

For smaller files, a lossy codec like x264vfw or matrox will work, but your image quality will go down depending on your encode settings.

[ZeroEnna]

For me, the Lagarith Codec proved quite efficient. The quality is quite good compared to the "relatively small" files. For a two hour recording, it took about 160GB, which is okay to me.