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storage digital video
I work at a university and one of our faculty members just purchased a mac laptop w/ fcp. He wants to store many hours of DV on his hard drives. I told him to save the video as uncompressed self-contained qt movies. The problem is that the files are too large. He has tried saving them as qt movies in several different codecs, but the time it takes to do this is not reasonable. Three hours of video was registering as two days to compress. Should he just buy a lot of external hard drives and save as uncompressed or is there a compromise or a quicker way to export as a quicktime conversion. Thank you.
Mark -
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What’s the format of the original video tape? is it DV or?
Jerry
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He should be buying external storage, yes.
DV footage should take up about 13 GB per hour. Is that about what he’s getting? But yes, with a 60 to 100 GB system drive you’ll run out of space quickly at that rate.
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He’s using DV and DVCam. And yes, he’s getting 13 gb/hr. He does have 250 GB ext hard drives and can get more. But that’s probably what he going to have to do if he wants to store his video for future editing, right?
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He can store the video back to DV tape or External HD. External HD is the least expensive alternative. For future editing, keep the original tapes.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Thank you. He is keeping the original tapes, but wants to also keep them as digital files.
Anyway, I think my questions have been aswered.
Thanks, everyone
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