Quick way to determine how many hours of footage?

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Quick way to determine how many hours of footage?

If I have, say about 300 Quicktime clips of HDV material in a folder, is there an easy way to figure out the cumulative hours of footage without having to slap them all on a timeline in FCP? Kind of like how you can figure out the total GB all the files take up on your drive (right click the folder and pull up "Get Info")?

Thank you.

Mac OS X (10.5.5), MacBook Pro, 2.5 GHz Intel Core Duo, 4GB RAM

Posted on Jan 31, 2011 5:16 PM

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Christina Rodriguez

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Jan 31, 2011 5:18 PM in response to rosylicious

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/webapps/video_calc.html

you'll probably have to put in a few numbers in terms of length until you match the same GB size listed.

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Jan 31, 2011 5:20 PM in response to rosylicious

HDV requires about 8.5gb/hour for 1280x720 and a little over 11gb/hour for 1440x1080.

-DH

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rosylicious Author

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Jan 31, 2011 5:27 PM in response to David Harbsmeier

Word. Thanks.

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Etchie

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Jan 31, 2011 10:28 PM in response to rosylicious

AJA also makes an iPhone app for calculating these things. It has all the listed codecs, frame sizes, frame rates and audio info. It's used to calculate how much space you'll need for a project, but I'm sure you can mess with it a bit and get it to tell you the right variable. I didn't look, but it's probably very similar to the web app that was suggested. Just had to put in my two cents because I find myself using it quite a bit.

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