How much video will 8GB Flash-drive hold?

Answer 1

1st answer from Aaron: 8gb can hold from 7-8 hours of video time but i recommend if possible to get a bigger mermory card such as a 16gb because they can hold 13-14 hours of energy so do the best you can

This would be a good answer if we knew what resolution and what type of compression was used. Getting more specific, an h.264 movie that I've downloaded takes up about 8.5 gb and it's 117 minutes long. This is in 1080p format I believe. A better example that I do have on hand is another h.264 video in 720p at 30 frames per second. It is 741 mb and it's 42 minutes long. Since we have exacts (mostly) on that, then we can assume (if we had everything the same) that you could put one minute of video at this quality on 17.64mb. So, going upward 60 minutes would fit on just over one gb (1,058 mb). Therefore, an 8gb card would hold around 7 and a half hours of video at this particular resolution, compression, and any other extras that I may not know about. Just to let you know what else I have read, I have found others saying that they could get about 2 hours of 1080p video on 8gb's.

Answer 2

It depends on 1. compression format used by the recording device (e.g. camcorder) and 2. quality setting at which the video is recorded. These two determine how much of disk space every second of the recording takes up. Manuals for recording devices usually have that information. The amount of space video files take really varies from less than 10MB / minute for iPod videos to 300MB / minute for some high definition footage.

Note that with any 'flash' drive, each file has to be 2GB or smaller. You will have to stop the recording once and restart as soon as the file size of the recording hits the 2GB mark, even if you have a 8GB flash drive. You will not be able to transfer a >2GB file, video or not, from a computer to a flash drive for storage without temporarily breaking up the file into <2GB files with a software such as WinRAR.

Answer 3

A 8 gb iPod holds 2,000 songs. But it also depends on the length of each songs

Answer 4

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Answer 5

i dont know the exact amount but if your looking for alot then this is fine.

Answer 6

There isn´t an exact amount that tells how many videos the iPhone 16GB 4S can hold, because it depends on how long the videos are, and how high a quality they are made in.

Answer 7

It holds 1,750.

Answer 8

It depends on the length of each video.

Answer 9

100