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\"AJA<\/a>Video professionals are familiar with California-based AJA Video Systems<\/a>, a company that produces everything from amazing 4K\/UltraHD production video cameras and high-end audio\/video I\/O products to Thunderbolt to HDMI converters. AJA is also well known for producing a number of free apps to help video professionals optimize their Macs, PCs and storage for the demands of video production. Today we\u2019re going to look at a free iOS app from the company, AJA DataCalc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The universal app takes up just a tiny amount of space on an\u00a0iPhone or iPad, but features a wealth of presets for calculating the storage requirements for video files.<\/p>\n

To begin with, the length of the video is entered at the top of the app in days, hours, minutes seconds or just using a SMPTE timecode (TC).<\/p>\n

Next, select the format of the video that is being created. A pair of pickers provide a way to choose both the resolution of the video \u2014 say, 4K\/UltraHD or standard old NTSC \u2014 and the frame rate of the video in frames per second. Support for a number of RED Digital Cinema professional camera formats is included.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a><\/p>\n

The codec (software used to encode a digital data stream) being used is selected next. AJA Data\u00a0Calculator\u00a0has a variety of codecs from which to select, from the AVCHD format used for high-definition consumer camcorders to capturing 16-bit RGBA directly \u2014 the latter takes up a huge<\/em> amount of storage, by the way. That\u2019s why there are storage solutions like the OWC ThunderBay 4 RAID 5 Edition<\/a> available in capacities of up to 32TB! (Read more about RAID 5 and the ThunderBay 4 solution here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Of course, most video is accompanied by an audio track as well, so the final pickers allow the user to select how many audio channels as well as sampling rate and bit depth.<\/p>\n

Tapping Done after selecting any of the video, codec or audio formats displays an immediate calculation of the storage space required. What if you only have a bit of space left on your hard disk drive and want to know just how long a video you can store on it?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the \u201cTimeCalc\u201d button at the bottom of the screen comes into play. Enter the amount of space available on your drive \u2014 you probably want to make sure you have a bit of breathing room added on \u2014 select the video format, codec, and audio format, and you\u2019ll know exactly how long you can shoot video to fill up the space.<\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong>\u00a0How to get started on your home video production studio<\/a><\/p>\n

Mac and Windows users don\u2019t have to feel left out of the fun, especially if they\u2019re using their desktop or laptop computers to do editing and don\u2019t want to have to haul that iPhone out of a pocket. Versions for OS X and Windows are available for download on the AJA software web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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