need help

[Rhewitt]

[bane76]Wrote: “I’m thinking about buying a new HD with firewire and I just wanted to know how much an hour weight in GB when I digitize it on offline 1:15 and how much it weight when I’m digitizing in 420”

New HD? Are you referring to a HD camera or deck?
What format HD? True HD?, HDV?

If you’re referring to HDV then HDV is just an aquisition format, when importing into your editing application you should transcode to a DNxHD format depending on your editing application. HDV ‘native’ editing is a hugely processor intensive task and will bring most editing systems to its knees.

As for the storage requirements, again this depends on what format your captured data will be in. HDV is pretty much the same data rate as DV25, which will require approx 13GB per hour.