loss less avi codec?

[Teenacidal]

i'm starting to shoot my first feature. All my money is going into that, so buying a bigger hardrive is something i would really like to avoid. right now i think i get like 3 miutes of video for a gigabyte. If i could get up to even 5 miutes per gig,that would maybe solve my problem.

Does anyone know if thats a problem using avid express?

[loster]

huffyuv

lagrath's

MJPEG (slightly lossy)

DV (Slightly Lossy)

[CogoSWSDS]

I don't know about Lagarith or MJPEG, but HuffYUV will not get you 1 gig/5 minutes at 720x480. It might at a lower resolution. HuffYUV and Lagarith are both lossless. DV comes close at 13GB per hour (12GB per hour would be 1 gig/5 minutes), but DV is slightly lossy.

CogoSWSDS

[manono]

Lagarith won't do it either. I usually get 16-20 GB per hour. Time to spend $100 on a new hard drive.

[Soopafresh]

Cineform might do it, but only supports up to 1440x1080, and it isn't free. Still, it's even faster than Huffy and compresses much better than Lagarith.

http://www.cineform.com/products/ConnectHD.htm


I agree. Bigger hard drive. Get a fan for it as well.

[Teenacidal]

Thanks. I listenend and bought a 160gb drive, i got it for 70 dollars!