Calculate Amount of Footage in Project

[Teague Fleury]

I actually was just checking my footage today to see how many GB’s were in one minute of HDV capture.
I assume you are using FCP, so open the project file folder and go to the capture scratch folder. Open it and you should have all your footage that you captured inside this folder (or multiple folders depending on how you captured the original footage). The next part is tedious but shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. Just right click on each file and select “get info”. There is a line item in get info that shows duration. Just get a calculator out or a piece of paper and write down the duration for each file. Add it up and that will give you your total minutes/hours of footage captured. Hope that helps.

Teague
NOMAPSfilms.com

[David Roth weiss]

If you tell us how many gigabytes of drive space it takes up and what video codec you’re editing, we can help you to calculate the hours of footage you have.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Andy Mees]

try this: with the project tab active, press Cmd A (for Select All) then Control C (for Batch Capture)

at the bottom of the subsequent Batch Capture window you should see a summary for Total Media Time (and Total Disk Space).

[Zane Barker]

I believe that media manager will tell you how much space all the assets in your project are taking up.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

Oh and for got to say that once you know how many GB of space the project is taking up just to the math for how the duration of the footage vs file size based on the codec you captured in.

You can use the AJA Data Rate Calculator Application to help you figure that out.
https://www.aja.com/products/software/

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Max Frank]

DH have a great free video calculator widget:
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/videospace

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MBP 2.4 – 10.5.6 – FCP 6.0.5

[Stuart Simpson]

Or there’s an online version of the widget here:

https://www.videospaceonline.com/

-Simmie
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[Lisa La rosa]

Here is a really quick way to do it:

Put all your clips into one bin or folder, use the find function if you don’t want to actually move them.

Select all the clips and then right click (or control click) and scroll down to Media Manager.

In Media Manager, under the “Media” option use the drop down menu to select “Copy”.

Hover your mouse over the “Modified” green bar till it highlights, under the green bar the total media length and file size will magically appear.

Ta Daa.

When you are done just cancel.

[Lisa La rosa]

Here is a really quick way to do it:

Put all your clips into one bin or folder, use the find function if you don’t want to actually move them.

Select all the clips and then right click (or control click) and scroll down to Media Manager.

In Media Manager, under the “Media” option use the drop down menu to select “Copy”.

Hover your mouse over the “Modified” green bar till it highlights, under the green bar the total media length and file size will magically appear.

Ta Daa.

When you are done just cancel.