[michaelt]

> if my consumer camera can generate ~1TB/hour and it's a "normal" consumer camera

If your consumer camera generates 1TB/hour then you're generating data as fast as a Red Komodo [1] recording at 6K "VFX, Extreme Detail Scenes"

Consumer quality? A high-end iphone can record 4K 60FPS video and an hour's footage takes up 24 gigabytes.

And you're watching 4K 60fps video on Netflix? Youtube? Maybe 12 gigabytes an hour.

[1] https://www.red.com/komodo

[wtallis]

> A high-end iphone can record 4K 60FPS video and an hour's footage takes up 24 gigabytes.

According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/109041 4k60 recording in ProRes needs 220 MB/s storage, so an hour would be ~792 GB. Sure, you can choose to throw away most of that data with more lossy compression, but the barely-acceptable bitrates used by streaming services are not at all the right point of comparison here.

[formerly_proven]

Raw 8K video at 60 fps out of something like a Nikon Z8 is around 1.5 TB/hour, 400-500 MB/s.

Of course most people wouldn't shoot at 60 fps for historical reasons, and raw video codecs are intra-only so data rate scales linearly with fps. They're just relatively heavily lossily compressed raw images in a box, basically.

[diggan]

Fair, maybe "prosumer" is more fitting, was thinking of the Pocket Cinema 6K (also from Blackmagic). Not exactly "high end cinema camera" so I still think the data rate doesn't sound out of the world.