[MacDV] Hard drive partioning

[Jeff Fay]

DV is about 5 minutes per GB. How long are your tapes?

60 minutes=12GB
30 minutes=6GB

GD2 wrote:

>I must not have saved the posts from way back, 'cause I can't find 'em. So,
>my apologies for what's likely a common question:
>
>I'd like to make 3 partitions, each to hold an entire DV tape, then leave
>the 4th partiton for data and rendering. How many GB is one DV tape? 20GB?
>
>Thanks-
>Gene 
>
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