Calculating Video Capture Time


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  Step 1:  Review Space Requirements

Full quality captured video is compressed within the camera at 3.6 Mb/second. This means that you will need over three and a half megabytes (or about two floppy disks worth) of storage space on your hard drive for each second of video you plan to use.
  Step 2:  Know the Formula

Open a Report
1 hour of video = 60 seconds x 60 minutes = 3600 seconds. 3600 seconds x 3.6 MB = 12,960 MB or 12.9 gigabytes of hard drive space.
  Step 3:  Maintaining Speed

To capture at full quality, your drive must be capable of sustained reading and writing at 3.6 MB/sec. All SCSI and most UDMA IDE drives are capable of maintaining this speed.
  Step 4:  Testing Your Hard Drive

The first time that you capture at full quality, Studio DV will test your drive to make sure that it is fast enough.