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Posted by Spex on 09/29/91 11:49
Kaveh wrote:
> I have a sony HC1 HD camcorder. I want to use it to shoot events where
> scenes will last more than one hour, so I can't use tape. So I want to
> record direct to disk using Firewire on a Mac. I have a fast LaCie 500
> Gb disk.
>
> Now on tape, one hour takes a whole tape, or 13.7 Gb. Will recording to
> disk take the same amount of space for 1 hour? I tried capturing through
> iMovie, and it seems to be around 30Gb for an hour. Can anyone enlighten
> me on this? Why should it take up more room on disk than on tape?
>
If you are recording HDV it will be of the order 13GB/h. iMovie
probably uses Apples Intermediate codec which uses a much higher bit
rate and therefore much more hard drive space.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301599
That should answer your question...
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