Resources for the crew · Camera department

Data and media calculator

(Calcolatore dati e schede, versione italiana)

How much space a shooting day takes, how many cards you need and how many terabytes the DIT has to prepare. For camera assistants, DITs and production.

01Codec

Codec and resolution Frame rate (fps)

02Shooting

Hours of footage per day (camera rolling) Shooting days Card capacity DIT copies

The figures are those published by the manufacturers, in decimal megabytes and gigabytes, as used for cards and drives. ProRes and Blackmagic RAW are recalculated in proportion to the frame rate. With constant‑quality codecs the real data rate changes with the image: allow a margin. For ARRI cameras there is also the official Formats and Data Rate Calculator on the ARRI website.