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Title: Film Recorder 1 MIN = ? MB Disk Space
Post by: HL117 on June 30, 2011, 10:08:38 PM

Anyone know the average amount of disk space used for say for (1) one minute, 30 secs  etc, etc.

I have heard the recorder saves the film as something then then the player converts those files into something viewable, so the actual recorder files are small but how small, hence the question.

Thanks

HL

Title: Re: Film Recorder 1 MIN = ? MB Disk Space
Post by: ImADot on June 30, 2011, 10:34:08 PM

I just looked at a couple of films.

1v1 fights in EW last November - 12:13 of film, 3.1Mb on my HD.
FSO takeoff back in March - 38 guys taking off, 1:38 of film, 683Kb on my HD.
FSO start to finish in April - 1:53:28 of film, 31Mb on my HD.

Title: Re: Film Recorder 1 MIN = ? MB Disk Space
Post by: HL117 on June 30, 2011, 11:05:01 PM

Thanks for the reply Dot.........appears you could leave your gun camera on and forget about it without too much downside.


HL

Title: Re: Film Recorder 1 MIN = ? MB Disk Space
Post by: Krusty on July 01, 2011, 11:29:20 AM

I've done up to 3.5 hour scenario frames, that came out to about between 12 and 18 MB total. There is a slight performance hit but you should only notice it if you're at the very bottom of the scale for hardware.

The problem is going back and reviewing it all. It's really saving positions, instructions, damage, and times, etc. So the film viewer plays back reading the instructions and re-creates events. You're not seeing them as they were in real-time, but it's pretty darned close. That's why the size is so small overall.