HD File size at DVinfo.net

Steve Siegel · October 7th, 2005, 07:57 PM

I just downloaded Kaku's 11 MB file of the nighttime highway scene. It ran about 3.5 seconds, or 3.6 MB per second of video. This is apporoximately the same file size per second of video as any of my uncompressed SD footage. I thought that HD was supposed to have huge files per footage time unit, not in the same range as SD. Am I mistaken, or did the download somehow compress the files?

Steve Siegel
Miami

Kevin Wild · October 7th, 2005, 08:53 PM

HDV is roughly the same as the DV bit rate. That's the beauty of it. There's lots of information around here about the different file sizes for SD, DV, HDV, DVCProHD, Uncompressed, etc. You might try searching "file size" or something like that.

Kevin

Chris Hurd · October 7th, 2005, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Siegel

This is apporoximately the same file size per second of video as any of my uncompressed SD footage.

I think you mean standard def DV, which actually is compressed at 5:1.

October 7th, 2005, 07:57 PM	#1
Steve Siegel Major Player Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Posts: 840	HD File size I just downloaded Kaku's 11 MB file of the nighttime highway scene. It ran about 3.5 seconds, or 3.6 MB per second of video. This is apporoximately the same file size per second of video as any of my uncompressed SD footage. I thought that HD was supposed to have huge files per footage time unit, not in the same range as SD. Am I mistaken, or did the download somehow compress the files? Steve Siegel Miami

October 7th, 2005, 08:53 PM	#2
Kevin Wild Major Player Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 540	HDV is roughly the same as the DV bit rate. That's the beauty of it. There's lots of information around here about the different file sizes for SD, DV, HDV, DVCProHD, Uncompressed, etc. You might try searching "file size" or something like that. Kevin