John VanSickle wrote:
> 
> David Fontaine wrote:
> >
> > And while processors are growing at a rate of 2^x, storage capacity is
> > growing at a rate of 2^(2^x)!!!
> 
> And the ability of Windoze to handle it is growing at the rate of
> sqrt(x)...
> 
> But I'll be interested in that storage space when I get around to
> making feature-length films.  90 minutes of 704x480 frames at 24fps
> works out to over 130 GB.

Hmm, i guestimate 111 GB :) (900KB per frame .png average.   Plus then
you need space to compress that on to. (And at least a couple of iterations
of test mpegs too...)

My new machine (coming next week, dual P3/933 pant pant) only has a 73GB SCSI.
I guess no feature films for me. :)

dik

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