HDV storage

Gunner Jones
June 12, 2005 at 9:41 pm

It’s 3.2 MB/sec, a little less than DV. I suggest internal SATA drives, not firewire drives. FireWire drives are not approved for capture by Apple.

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John Treffer
June 13, 2005 at 2:34 pm

It is striking indeed that I also found the datarate to be around 3.2 MB/s(25Mbit/s). I thought HDV 1080i used the full DV space, but I think this is due to audio compression.
HDV 720p has a bitrate of about 2.4MB/s(19Mbit/s).
Andrei Zagdansky
June 13, 2005 at 2:45 pm

It is striking. I though I would need some extra drive for a big project, but it seems that
I can handle a lot of footage on just two internal 250 G drives. Thank you guys
best
Andei
Klaus
June 14, 2005 at 12:17 pm

What about Firewire 800? Is that ok for HDV editing?
Andrei Zagdansky
June 14, 2005 at 4:45 pm

I just don’t know, I am still on FCP 4.5 and haven’t seen there specs for HDV on FCP 5. Let me know
Andrei

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