What's your data rate?

I J Walton · Post by **I J Walton** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:41 pm

Howdy, a quick questions here. I'm not sure if DV captured onto a computer has a fixed data rate or not (or if it varies on different computers).

Can everyone here write down the data rates of their DV avi's, please.

Thanks.

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 6:10 pm

Last capture I got about 3.6 Mbits/s, but mine varies as well. I think it just depends on your system usage, hard drive fragmentation at the time of capture, and the RPM's of your HD. I recently had a problem with this as well, as mine was only capturing at 16 fps. When I captured again a few hours later, it was up to 26. Go figure, sometimes DV capture is screwed up.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:52 am

It isn't fixed. It varies, computer to computer, camcorder to camcorder, depending on your footage and compression (if any).

El Brenty · Post by **El Brenty** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:43 pm

This is why I go on about RAID0 drive systems- you'll find that the data transfer rate will shoot up with a RAID system. Also, now I see they're putting it onto Serial ATA drive systems, and it's becomming standard on a lot of motherboards!!! Awesome!