• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How much Disk Space “takes” HDV?

  Posted by Diego Gogni on February 7, 2006 at 12:59 pm

  I Know Dv is like 4Mb/seg , But I’ll capture HDV (1440×1080) and I don’t know how much disk space I’ll need.

  (It will be only 15 minutes of footage)

  Rj Hewitt replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven L. gotz

  February 7, 2006 at 2:25 pm

  It depends on how you capture it. In Premiere Pro 1.5.1 you convert from M2T to AVI when you capture so it takes around 40GB per hour instead of almost 13 or so that DV takes. If you capture native M2T, it is exactly the same file size as DV.

  Steven
  http://www.stevengotz.com
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  Rj Hewitt

  February 8, 2006 at 12:20 am

  As Steve mentions, the native file size is the same as standard DV. HDV is a highly compressed format using the MPEG2 system (similar to DVDs).

  To edit in Premier 1.51 (no native MPEG2 editing) requires changing the format to AVI, which is un-compressed. However, writing back HDV onto tape will lose some quality as the picture has to be re-compressed to MPEG2.

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