10 hour long video session a possibility?

Hi to all.
I currently use iMovie 4 in an older Powerbook G4 and need to get a new computer so that I can record 10 hours straight of DV into a hard drive per session. ( I plan to video the sky all night for meteors and fireballs and extract the meteors I capture during the night.)
Presently I can record video from an analog camera that sends its signal into a Canopus ADVC110 converter which converts the video camera signal into DV and then into my old Powerbook via firewire. The system works well with my Powerbook but I can only record about 1/2 hour of DV before the Powerbook's free 10 Gigabyte of hard drive space is used up.
So I am looking to get a new iMac with a very large hard drive. Will iMovie '08 record 10 hours straight of DV through the night without glitching? Right now my iMovie 4 records consecutive 9 minute long files and works very well. Will iMovie '08 do this?
Thank you in advance for your replies and or suggestions. If my question isn't clear enough then please ask me for clarification.
Thanks! - Tom

I don't think you'll find many people that have ever tried to capture 10 hours of DV video straight from a camera! You might have to experiment a bit yourself.
As Winston already calculated, 10 hours of DV video will produce a single 130 GB file! That's quite a big file. I'd look around for a capture application that makes a set of smaller files instead. Like start a new file every hour or so. Ten 13 GB files are a lot more manageable than a single 130 GB file. Could you work with timelapse recordings? That would be another way to greatly reduce the file size.
iMovie '08 creates a thumbnail file of your imported or captured movies. That's basically a H.264 encoded low resolution version of your movie. That can take a couple of hours for a 10 hour DV file, during which time you cannot use iMovie '08 for anything else. iMovie '06 doesn't do this, and your video is viewable and editable immediately after you stop capturing. If you buy a new Mac, iMovie '08 is included, and iMovie '06 is a free download. So you can give both applications a try.
Another Mac application that can capture video is Quicktime Pro.

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