Assuming these are standard minDV tapes we are talking about, captured through firewire then, on average, a one hour tape will capture and need about 12Gb of disk space.

Depending on what s/w you have/use you can seperate the audio from the video, saving it to a WAV or MP3 files or whatevere. I'm not sure what freeware might be able to do this though. Maybe someone else can recommend something. I know premiere Pro has an export audio only option but that sound (no pun intended) like a sledgehammer to crack a nut though. Then just trash the capture files and burn the audio to a CD as an audio CD.

Stop Press. From memory I thinkl premiere pro might even have a capture audio only option. problem solved.

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