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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
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Originally Posted by sperry
Cool, just as soon as I get that $150 from you guys for a hard drive big enough to capture the video to, I'll pull it off the camera. 
Seriously, it'll take about 100GB of space to pull all that video off the camera... and I'm totally broke on drive space. I need to go get a 250GB drive or something. |
:shock: ~3 runs/180 seconds of video is going to fill up 100GB of HD space? Am I missing something here? |
Well, uncompressed here's the math:
(((640px * 480px)/frame * 4bytes/px * 30fps) + (2bytes/sample * 44100samples/s * 2 for stereo audio)) * 60s/min * 90min tape =
(36,864k/s video + 176.4k/s audio) * 5400s of tape = approx
200GB
And I've got 6 tapes to digitize. So, uh, thank god for MPEG compression... but in order to make good video you need to pull it off the tape without using lossy compression... so for a whole tape you end up needing at least 100GB of free space to work with.