• VEGAS Pro

  how many gigs HD?

  Posted by Gilles Gagnon on February 29, 2012 at 8:13 pm

  Hi folks,

  How many gigs would I need to store 25 hours of 720P footage? 1080i?

  (what’s the multiplier?)

  Cheers,
  G

  Gilles

  Gilles Gagnon replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Angelo Mike

  March 1, 2012 at 1:33 am

  It depends on the bit rate and file format, which can vary greatly.

  http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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  Gilles Gagnon

  March 1, 2012 at 1:34 am

  good point…

  raw footage from my camera…. AVCHD…

  Gilles
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  Angelo Mike

  March 1, 2012 at 4:26 am

  What kind of camera? My Canon Vixia HF S21 shoots to AVCHD, and estimating based on a project I have that’s about 3 hours of footage, it takes up 18.7 GB, so about 6 GB per hour. And that’s shooting at a bit rate of 17 MPS.

  http://www.scenethroughglass.com
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  Gilles Gagnon

  March 1, 2012 at 12:54 pm

  I have the Panny hmc150.

  Thanks Angelo for your input. I’ll use this as a benchmark for my rough calculations.

  G

  Gilles
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  Bruce Brent

  March 2, 2012 at 6:00 pm

  Gilles,

  Based on your camera model, the specs show:

  720 mode in the highest quality (VBR) you should get 24mbps, without the VBR setting, you should get 21mbps.

  At 24mbps, that means 32gb=180 minutes of video.
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  Gilles Gagnon

  March 2, 2012 at 7:12 pm

  Thanks Bruce!
  I’ll go with those numbers.

  Much appreciated,
  G

  Gilles

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