Back of the envelope calculations
5120x2700 = 13.8 Mpixels per frame
assuming 12-bit RGB, 36 bits per pixel, round up to 5 bytes per pixel
yields approx 70 MB per frame
24 frames per second yields approx 1.7 GB/second
3600 seconds per hour yields approx 6 TB per hour
two hour film: 12 TB
Hmmm, I'm off by a factor of 4 somewhere. But yes, uncompressed video is huge. Distribution to theaters is in compressed format.
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5120x2700 = 13.8 Mpixels per frame
assuming 12-bit RGB, 36 bits per pixel, round up to 5 bytes per pixel
yields approx 70 MB per frame
24 frames per second yields approx 1.7 GB/second
3600 seconds per hour yields approx 6 TB per hour
two hour film: 12 TB
Hmmm, I'm off by a factor of 4 somewhere. But yes, uncompressed video is huge. Distribution to theaters is in compressed format.
- mark 9-01-2012 8:14 pm