Posted by Kaveh on 01/11/69 11:49

Spex <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:

> 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...

Sure does Spex. Thanks a lot. But a follow up: Do you need to go through
FCP to capture HDV?

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Kaveh

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