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Ah, this question 🙂 QuickTime data rates (what you see in the Premiere quality settings) don't reflect raw drive transfer rates (say, using FWB's utilities) much at all. Those raw rates are for uncompressed data, which the hardware can compress as it's transferring to yield really impressive numbers. The video stuff coming out of your VVS card is major compressed, on the other hand. Hence the lower numbers. Which brings us to that rather confusing settings dialog. The higher the transfer rate you set in there, the LESS the VVS (or whatever) card compresses the video data (= better quality). The lower the rate you set in there, the MORE the compression card squashes your data (= less quality, more lossy) before passing it to the bus out to the array. It's a rather unintuitive way to do such adjustments, IMHO. Depending on what size video you're capturing (640×480, 320×240, etc.) and what sampling rate you're doing audio at, you need to tweak this data rate setting until you get what you want. If you're trying to get a lot of video into 4GB, you may also need to compress your video more to get it all on. – A.J.