AVCHD & HDV - Conversion to AIC storage requirements question

Hi all-
Does HDV converted to AIC take about the same amount of disk space that AVCHD -> AIC does?
Sal

I figured it did but wanted to check with the expert first.
Thanks Tom!

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hey there qsack,
in the USN i was told the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask. you can send your HDV project back to tape in your cam to watch on your HDTV... the shoot/edit/distribute flow that we have in DV, is not yet ready w/ HDV, partly because of the cost of the burners & the R&D to develop the authoring software for mass commercial use(make it simple enough for average users as w/ iDVD). also the major studios are probably closely guarding the technology in part due concerns about piracy, also the HD-disc format war thing.... these are just some of the speculations on why we can't yet burn our HD movies to disc.
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I just bought a Canon HG-10. The format is AVCHD or H.264. I get 1080 out of it. Ok, now, when I get the file into iMovie08, it is transcoded to Apple Intermediate Coded AIC.
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I found this post by Tom Wolsky:
+Tom Wolsky+
+Posts: 8,868+
+From: Northern California+
+Registered: Nov 7, 2001+
+ Re: confused about editing AVCHD files+
+Posted: Nov 26, 2007 8:44 AM in response to: DrewJ +
+ Reply Email+
+AVCHD is a long GOP, MPEG based compression format. A GOP is a group of pictures, usually 15 frames long. The first frame is an I frame, a wholly compressed frame of video. The subsequent frames look to that frame and the adjacent frames to compress the media. Th first frame is a picture of someone standing in front of a building. The person moves. Only those portions of the image that contain the movement are recompressed; the other portions take their information from the I frame. The frames can either be B or P frames, either looking back to the I frame, or based on looking back and looking ahead to the subsequent frames. When you stop on a frame the camera reads the data from the adjacent frames and creates a viewable display. When you edit on a B or P frame, the computer has to reconstitute a new I frame and then build a GOP structure for the frames that follow. That's what it would have to do if it was edited natively. Instead the material is converted to media that's composed entirely of I frames. Any compression is within one frame, and an edit can be on any frame because none of the adjacent frames require information from any other frame.+
+GOP based compression is used for delivery formats like DVD and the web. It was never intended as a production format. Camera manufacturers decided it was an easy way to make cheap cameras with no regard whatsoever for having to do anything with the material besides record it and play it back. Unfortunately most people want to edit it, and the computer manufacturers have to come up with a way to make this possible.+
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AVCHD/HDV files with a MacBook Pro

I'm trying to decide between a AVCHD and HDV camera. A lot of people warn against the hardware needed to work with AVCHD files. But, are AVCHD files any more processor heavy than HDV? Once the files are imported, aren't both AIC at that point?
I am on a 2.16ghz Core 2 Duo with iMovie 8?

I have cut/pasted this from another thread where I posted it following a question from a Canon HV20 owner. The info applies to all HDV and AVCHD cams though. Might help you decide.
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Do I need to maintain storage location for materials in material master data?
not neccessary but depends on the requirement of you rbussiness.
Which view or which functionality must maintain storage location in the material master data? Is it mandatory?
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Data is saved using hash table (key has a fixed size of 16 bytes, but data size varies - from 20 bytes to a few kbs)More precisely, to how many "few" Kbs?
the data becomes about 9GB (slightly more than our data grows rate), but the index db size has grown to 9GB as wellCould you check that the secondary key creator callback function is correct? It's a little bit surprising to see the secondary index database growing from 1GB to 9GB.
Are there any parameters (eg fill factors) that could affect the storage usage? We just used the defaults.Yes, the most important is the database page size which will influence the fill factor; see Selecting a page size.
As your data item size varies to a few Kbs your database probably has a lot of overflow pages (these pages store overflow items which are too large to be stored entirely onto a normal leaf page - an overflow item will be stored onto multiple overflow pages; retrieving such items is more expensive as the entire set of pages needs to be read into cache).
Also, for specific configuration for each of the two access methods see Btree access method specific configuration and Hash access method specific configuration.
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Over time, how to defragment the DB without taking the DB off line?Use compaction as initially mentioned; compaction is done online, that is, you do not have to close the database (take it offline).
Regards,
Andrei

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thank you for your answer. the resolution is better, but it is still not as good as i would like it to be....
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