final cut express users that made 5-10 minute projects... OPEN THIS!!!!!

[bluedoggiant]

how much would that project take up on your hard drive?? im getting an imac, so how big shud my hd be if i plan to get into serious video editing and edit about 1 or RARELY twice a month??? share how you have your system set up to suit final cut express projects that are 5-10 minutes long

 

[t1937r0]

how much would that project take up on your hard drive?? im getting an imac, so how big shud my hd be if i plan to get into serious video editing and edit about 1 or RARELY twice a month??? share how you have your system set up to suit final cut express projects that are 5-10 minutes long

~ 13G for raw footage (about 6-10 times the project length is my average)
Then factor in space for render files for effects and transitions.
Then add in the space required for the final output from Final Cut.
You don't say how you will be "sharing" this project. A DVD? Fine ad ~4G.
And oh yeah...audio...gotta have audio.

My total would end up about 20G or so.

Your milage may vary, especially if you use Final Cut's offline capabilities
or you shoot in some type of HD.

 

[zioxide]

You want to get an external drive to keep all of your clips on (capture scratch disk), so you don't run in to dropped frames because the internal drive can't keep up the constant stream while it's trying to run the OS.

 

[bluedoggiant]

~ 13G for raw footage (about 6-10 times the project length is my average)
Then factor in space for render files for effects and transitions.
Then add in the space required for the final output from Final Cut.
You don't say how you will be "sharing" this project. A DVD? Fine ad ~4G.
And oh yeah...audio...gotta have audio.

My total would end up about 20G or so.

Your milage may vary, especially if you use Final Cut's offline capabilities
or you shoot in some type of HD.

for like 5 minutes of video, it will take up 20gb???

 

[Cromulent]

for like 5 minutes of video, it will take up 20gb???

Well it is about 12GBs per hour of raw footage so your looking at about 2GBs for 10 minutes of footage. That is based on standard def DV footage. Then as has been mentioned above you have all the extras to take into account.

 

[t1937r0]

for like 5 minutes of video, it will take up 20gb???

Five minutes is about 1 gig. However, as I said, I generally have between
6 and 10 times that much video that I edit down to end up with 5 minutes
of finished product. That turns out to be 6 gig to 10 gig. Along with the
final product quicktime file, along with the DVD image if I'm creating a
DVD, along with all the other stuff I mentioned before. It adds up.

If, of course, you are a much more efficient at recording, and you only
require 5 minutes of tape to produce a 5 minute video, more power to you!

Edit: And of course, quite a bit of this storage is just required temporarily.
You could always get rid of these files once you are done with your project.