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Posted by Mike Kujbida on 05/25/07 23:44
Spex wrote:
> Mike Kujbida wrote:
>> On May 25, 2:52 am, leekazi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On May 25, 1:43 am, Larry in AZ <usen...@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Waiving the right to remain silent, Okay Yankee <okyan...@gmail.com>
>>>> said:
>>>>> I've been quoted a price for just converting the PAL DigiBetas to
>>>>> uncompressed .AVIs WITHOUT CONVERSION.
>>>> Do you have any idea how large the files for 8 hours of uncompressed
>>>> AVI is
>>>> going to be..?
>>>> --
>>>> Larry Jandro
>>>> Video Engineering & Equipment Rentals
>>>> Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
>>>> [Remove spamtrap in ALLCAPS to reply]
>>> Larry, I am planning on only converting about 3 - 4 hours of that... I
>>> imagine I could fit it all onto a 250 gig hard drive, no?
>>>
>>> Lee
>>
>>
>>
>> No you can't. Uncompressed AVI is in the neighbourhood of 100 gig/hr.
>> I deal regularly with animation students at the college I work for and
>> their finished projects (1 min. video - uncompressed AVI) are anywhere
>> from 1.5 gig to 2.5 gig.
>> :-(
>>
>> Mike
>>
> The obvious question is why uncompressed? What a waste of time.
>
> Why not consider DVCAM or at most DV50?
Maybe DV50 but I'd stay away from DV (i.e. DVCAM). DigiBeta is 4:2:2
colour (or better - can't remember right now) while DV is only 4:1:1 so
you'd lose a lot of colour information in the transfer.
Mike
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