I have VideoStudio 11 and imported my holiday footage through this program. The footage was filmed on a Sony HDR HC7E which is a high definition video camera which uses dv tape. An hour of footage captured from the tape to my harddrive equated to 12.6 gigs. Is this right? I am asking this because I then imported a hour of a standard definition footage from another dv tape which equated to 10.2 gigs. I thought there was a big difference in the size of standard video to high definition video.
Is VideoStudio 11 smart enough to recognise high definition and import it as such?
Correct Size of High Definition Video
Moderator: Ken Berry
VS isn't really smart, it's the format your capturing in.
HDV is 25000kbs or 25MBS which is about 200kBytes per Minute, 5Minutes=approx 1 gig.
Capturing DV at standard definition uses about the same data rate as HDV so the file sizes are very close to each other except it's standard definition and every frame is individually compressed.
HDV uses mpeg2 as it's compression format.
Because HDV and DV use the same data rate is the reason you can record High Definition to dv tape. The difference only being the compression method used, but the data rates are the same.
HDV is 25000kbs or 25MBS which is about 200kBytes per Minute, 5Minutes=approx 1 gig.
Capturing DV at standard definition uses about the same data rate as HDV so the file sizes are very close to each other except it's standard definition and every frame is individually compressed.
HDV uses mpeg2 as it's compression format.
Because HDV and DV use the same data rate is the reason you can record High Definition to dv tape. The difference only being the compression method used, but the data rates are the same.