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fcp>quicktime=hd space?
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i have someone who's editing her film in final cut pro 2 (soon, 3).
she wants to export her film to quicktime so i can work on music for it...
any ideas about how much time=how much hard drive space with quicktime, versus footage uncompressed in final cut?
any info would help!
thanx in advance
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i assume she's going to transfer this file to you at some point.
if this is the case, you won't need full size DV video to look at.
uncompressed DV would be huge. just ask her how big her work files are and you should get an idea (work files = the sum of the video clips she's using). if you compress the hell out of it and shrink it down, you can reduce the size by quite a bit. how much of the picture do you really need to see? is this going to be emailed to you? how long is the video?
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nice logo, demonhood...
do u know what uncompressed video uses (in terms of hd space)?
will be hand-delivered. thought i would get an external firewire drive, bring it there, for transfers. IF she gave me the whole film, (if), would be under 90 minutes...
want to mix the music into Peak, then bring it there on the same hd.
any #s?
uncompressed dv=?megs per?
quiktime??
thanx!
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judging from my stored clips, DV NTSC quicktime video is taking up around 3.6MB per second. that's 216MB a minute. i saved each one of these clips individually from within iMovie. the stored clips i have that are raw DV (from iMovie, stored in its Media folder) are 6.8MB per second (408MB a minute). quite a difference, and that's full size. not sure if FCP does anything different on this front. i've never gotten it to cooperate fully with my system while capturing.
if you were to export the entire movie at its current framerate, but scaled it down and used Sorenson or Cinepak or something, the size would be much much smaller. but it'd also take a long long time to compress (especially if it's over an hour long). you could limit the data rate to roughly 200k/sec (720MB/hour) on sorenson3, but you'd be sitting around for days while it compressed. if you're going to be given the HD anyhow, and it still has space on it, just go for a quick DV quicktime export. you can try it out on a short clip to get an idea of the size and time it'll take. if the HD is holding ALL of her files, then i don't see why you couldn't just use her FCP file and never export a thing (continue working on her FCP2 document, that is).
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