Capacity For File Sizes

starixiom wrote on 6/16/2003, 11:00 PM
Okay a ran search on this but did not find what i was looking for.

Approximately hOw much space does each minute of DV take up on the hard drive? I could do the math for a whole 60min once i find out.

I want to render from timeline to uncompressed avi then to what ever format i need. In general how much space does 1 min of uncompressed video take? I remember reading somewhere @1gb=1min but i cant find where i read that so its probably wrong.

The reason i ask these questions is that i (like 90% of everyone else) am looking for a new hard drive. I know that i want to stay in the 120gb-160gb Hd range for media management sake. If i can get a good deal on say a 120gb drive and it holds @hour of footage then i will probably take that deal. Ive been reformating after every projecet on my smaller drives so archiving data to this drive is not essential.

Comments

rebel44 wrote on 6/16/2003, 11:53 PM
Why would you want to render in uncompressed AVI?. You want to capture in Uncompressed to have as many as you can frames to work with, but for final video I do MPEG2. After all most production will and up on TV screen.
120G should be efficient for 1 -2 hr.
AZEdit wrote on 6/17/2003, 12:07 AM
If you really want to render uncompressed AVI- each frame is approx 1 meg=30 megs/sec= 1.8 gig per minute!

What you want to really render to is probably NTSC DV (AVI format)- at a rate of 220 megs per min
riredale wrote on 6/17/2003, 1:12 AM
The DV format is the way to go unless you're doing some exotic stuff for Hollywood. Figure on needing 13GB of hard drive for each hour.