Dick Balaska wrote:
> 
> 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. :)

You can always zip down the png's.  I was calculating based on
TGAs, which zip down to about 40% of original size.

Regards,
John
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