How much space would it take to store an IMAX film uncompressed?

[BigToque]

Using the best transfering technology, how much space do you think a 1 hour film would require?

 

[wedi42]

2TB

 

[0roo0roo]

well they scan normal film at 4k res..so imax should be something frightening.

 

[glen]

what is one frame?
Let's say it is 100 megs
24 per sec
2.4 gigs a second
60 x 60 = 3600 sec per hour


8.640 TB/hour

 

[mundane]

From Wikipedia:

The intent of IMAX is to dramatically increase the resolution of the image by using much larger film stock at a resolution of about 10000 x 7000

Then plugin to glen's formula, assuming a given color depth for each pixel.

 

[FoBoT]

a frikin butt ton, like 232FBTB

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
From Wikipedia:

The intent of IMAX is to dramatically increase the resolution of the image by using much larger film stock at a resolution of about 10000 x 7000

Then plugin to glen's formula, assuming a given color depth for each pixel.

I was just about to post that... Assuming 24 BPP, you've got 3 bytes per pixel

10000 * 7000 * 3 = 210 MB/frame
5.04 Gig/sec
18.144 TB/hour

Of course, applying a simple lossless compression would drastically reduce the overall disk space needed, but that's not the question.

 

[helpme]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
a frikin butt ton, like 232FBTB

I believe the correct unit is "Metric Assload"