Video Recording Storage Calculator
Calculate how many hours of video recording fit in your storage.
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Planning a shoot or checking if your drive can handle a full day of recording? This calculator estimates video recording time based on storage capacity, resolution and frame rate. Higher resolutions and frame rates produce better footage but consume storage dramatically faster - 4K at 60 fps uses nearly 30 times the space of 720p at 24 fps.
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Frequently asked questions
About 46 hours at 30 fps, or roughly 23 hours at 60 fps. At the standard 30 fps rate, 4K video uses approximately 22 GB per hour.
About 3 GB at 24 fps, 3.75 GB at 30 fps and 6 GB at 60 fps. Most streaming and casual recording uses 1080p at 30 fps.
At 1080p 30 fps, about 68 hours. At 4K 30 fps, about 9.3 hours. For a wedding videographer shooting 4K, a 256GB card covers roughly one full event.
Higher frame rates capture more frames per second. At 60 fps you record twice as many frames as 30 fps, roughly doubling the file size. This applies to all resolutions.
About 80 GB per hour at 24 fps and 200 GB per hour at 60 fps. A 1TB drive holds only about 5 hours of 8K footage at 60 fps, which is why most 8K production relies on large RAID arrays.