I have some video clips on iMovie and wanted to see if this is a normal size for a video file. One is 13 min. and is 2.61GBm the other is 15 minutes and is 3.04GB, is this normal (I'm in a debate with friends over this, they insist that these files should be much smaller)?
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13 minutes of footage, 2.61GB?
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I know nothing about video but that seems big to me. A whole DVD is only about 5 GB.DaveinJapan said:
mad jew said:
Rule of thumb is 4 mins of DV stream footage = 1Gb.
DVD's use MPEG2 encoding which drops from 3.2Mb/sec to a maximum of 9Kb/sec usually running at around 6-7Kb/sec, so a minute of MPEG2 comes in around 35-45Mb.
This is dependant on frame size, bitrate and frame-rate too.
You don't have to use MPEG2, QuickTime allows many codecs to be used, the new H264 is a very good quality vs Size trade-off, as is the Sorenson 3 codec.
Many cross platform vids are done in DivX, which is, I believe, a variant of the AVI wrapper.
Video makes for big files, I've got around 200Gb of active video on a Lacie FW800 at the moment and I'm an audio engineer... Go figure...
I work with uncompressed PAL SD video at work, that works out at about 70GB per hour. That eats up HS space quite quickly. It is fun to work with as the Dell I have to use, only has a second internal drive for the media & it is only just fast enough to capture video on.
yeah definitely had to pick up an second external drive last week to keep up with space. I've been working on some side projects in FCP from miniDV and with four tapes logged I've already eaten up 80 gigs of a 250 gig HD. Must be ridiculous to work with Hi-Def!