• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  24pa footage should take up less space than 60i?

  Posted by Trevor Ward on March 9, 2007 at 1:03 pm

  I thought I read somewhere that 24pA footage should take up less hard disk space than shoot 60i. Is that true? Seems to make sense. You have 6 fewer images per second. However, capturing 24pA material (DV) using the advanced pulldown removal in FCP, still yields about 11 GB per hour of footage, the same as 60i. I thought by using the advanced pulldown removal, that it’s removing the pulldown cadence and hence leaving me with my 24 frames per second?

  -trevor ward
  http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
  orlando, fl

  Rafael Amador replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rafael Amador

  March 9, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  Hi Trevor,
  In theory 24 images shoud take less memory than 30 (60i) even with the pull-down (in the end the pull-down is a way to conbine fields from different frames, but you end up with the same number of pictures). But think that when working with DV we are in the what is call the “25Mbps”. Is the same that you are using MiniDv, DVCam, DVCPro25..PAL or NTSC. These formats work with the same data-rate. So basically we get the same 3.5M per second of footage.
  Cheers,
  Rafael

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