Saturday, November 29, 2008
Drivespace considerations for shooting on HD
Earlier this week John Davis did a story on JVC's latest line of digital camcorders. Joe Termulo, our videographer for the assignment and a real tech whiz, had the foresight to shoot the portions of the piece that talked about the Everio S Series, G Series and HD devices with those very units, and then incoporate them into the story:
The quality speaks for itself, so I won't belabor the richness of audio/video between each. About 2 minutes of footage shot on the various platforms, captured into Final Cut Pro is as such:
So when he brought the raw footage back to the KUAM Studios after principal photography in its various forms (our native DV, the S/D Series digital format, and the 1080p high-definition), the geek in me wanted to see the variance in filesizes between each. As we'll be moving to fully-digital broadcasting in a couple months and soon thereafter HDTV, I wanted to gauge what we should be looking at in terms of storage for our raw archives, as well as what we produce every night.
The quality speaks for itself, so I won't belabor the richness of audio/video between each. About 2 minutes of footage shot on the various platforms, captured into Final Cut Pro is as such:
DV - 75 MB
S/G Series - ~200 MB
HD - 578 MB
Whoa. We've got some pretty spacious hard drives in use already for storage, but considering that for every 60 seconds of edited news footage that makes it on the air is in reality at least 6-7 minutes of shot footage, this is going to take some massive disks.
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Cant wait to make full use of my HDTV! KUAM news in HD will rock! Whats the time frame for this to go into effect?
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