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Understanding data rates, with little to no math

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Understanding data rates, with little to no math

When we talk about understanding data rates, we really run into this problem. A lot of us don't like math. It's okay, I'm not going to do a lot of math. I'm going to do three numbers and three easy numbers. You need to understand data rates for this one reason. When we talk about data rates, we're talking basically about this idea. The larger the data rate, the larger the resulting file. There are a couple other rules with it, but that's really the most important part. When you go and you look at your camera, when you look at whether it's your iPhone, whether it's your Black Magic design camera, whatever camera you're using, what's really important is you know that data rate. Particularly here I want to give you a couple and I'm actually going to start here at the top with DSLR video. It's technically, depending on the camera, it can be 48 megabits per second, just ignore that megabits per second part. Just hear 50. 50's an easy number. ProRes 422 which is the common ProRes that we…

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