Video bitrate: Panasonic DVCPRO-HD

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Color depth RAW 8bit RAW 10bit RAW 12bit RAW 16bit RGB 3x8bit RGB 3x10bit RGB 3x12bit

Frame rate 20fps (low end video) 23.976fps (TV/NTSC) 24fps (cinema) 25fps (TV/PAL) 29.97fps (TV/NTSC) 48fps (cinema HFR) 50fps (TV/PAL) 59.94fps (TV/PAL) 60fps (cinema HFR)

Estimate video bitrate!

Uncompressed bitrate

• Megapixels: 1.6 MP (1,555,200 pixels)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 (TV 4:3)
• 1 frame of RGB 3x8bit: 4.67MB (1.6 MP x 24 bits)
• Interlaced: 50 fps x 4.67MB x 50% (interlacing) = 933.12Mbps = 116.64MB/s
• Progressive: 50 fps x 4.67MB = 1.87Gbps = 233.28MB/s
• Longer durations: 14GB/min = 839.81GB/hr

Estimated compressed bitrates

• HDCAM SR HQ (1080p25 @ 10bit = 880 Mbps) (compression: 1.3:1 or 76.9%):
  1.44Gbps = 179.45MB/s = 10.77GB/min = 646.01GB/hr
• HDCAM SR SQ (1080p25 @ 10bit = 440 Mbps) (compression: 2.7:1 or 37%):
  691.2Mbps = 86.4MB/s = 5.18GB/min = 311.04GB/hr
• Pure YCbCr 4:2:2 (compression: 3:1 or 33.3%):
  622.08Mbps = 77.76MB/s = 4.67GB/min = 279.94GB/hr
• Prores444 (1080p25 = 275 Mbps) (compression: 4.5:1 or 22.2%):
  414.72Mbps = 51.84MB/s = 3.11GB/min = 186.62GB/hr
• Prores422 (1080p25 = 184 Mbps) (compression: 6.7:1 or 14.9%):
  278.54Mbps = 34.82MB/s = 2.09GB/min = 125.34GB/hr
• REDCODE 42 Codec (compression: 7.5:1 or 13.3%):
  248.83Mbps = 31.1MB/s = 1.87GB/min = 111.97GB/hr
• JPEG2000 250Mbps for 2Kp24 (compression: 7.6:1 or 13.2%):
  245.56Mbps = 30.69MB/s = 1.84GB/min = 110.5GB/hr
• DVCPRO HD 4:2:2 Y′CbCr (1080i50 = 115 Mbps) (compression: 8.6:1 or 11.6%):
  217Mbps = 27.13MB/s = 1.63GB/min = 97.65GB/hr
• REDCODE 36 Codec (compression: 9:1 or 11.1%):
  207.36Mbps = 25.92MB/s = 1.56GB/min = 93.31GB/hr
• REDCODE 28 Codec (compression: 10:1 or 10%):
  186.62Mbps = 23.33MB/s = 1.4GB/min = 83.98GB/hr
• JPEG2000 250Mbps for 2Kp48 (compression: 15.3:1 or 6.5%):
  121.98Mbps = 15.25MB/s = 914.82MB/min = 54.89GB/hr
• MPEG2 High (1080p25 = 80 Mbps) (compression: 15.5:1 or 6.5%):
  120.4Mbps = 15.05MB/s = 903.02MB/min = 54.18GB/hr
• DVD MPEG2 (480p25 = 9.8 Mbps) (compression: 21.1:1 or 4.7%):
  88.45Mbps = 11.06MB/s = 663.36MB/min = 39.8GB/hr
• DVCPRO50 (1080p25 = 50 Mbps) (compression: 24.8:1 or 4%):
  75.25Mbps = 9.41MB/s = 564.39MB/min = 33.86GB/hr
• BluRay H.264 (1080p25 = 38 Mbps) (compression: 32.6:1 or 3.1%):
  57.25Mbps = 7.16MB/s = 429.35MB/min = 25.76GB/hr

Examples

• Full HD (1920 x 1080)
• 2k cinema (2048 x 1080)
• 4K TV (3840 x 2160)
• 4K cinema (4096 x 2160)