Determining Media Storage Needs

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Determining Media Storage Needs

Related Topic: Determining The Space Available On Your Media Drive
Related Topic: Estimated SD Media Storage Requirements

So, you've logged a bunch of Master Clips and you're ready to begin Batch Capturing. But you're wondering, "With all these clips, how much space, in terms of time, will be needed on my drive?"

There's a very easy method to figure this out.

1. Assuming that all the clips in the bin are the ones you just logged and are offline, the first step is to select all the clips in the bin. This is easily accomplished by going to EDIT > SELECT ALL. If you only want to select some of the clips, you can Ctrl+click (Windows) or Shift+click (Macintosh).

2. With the clips selected, go to FILE > GET CLIP INFO. The keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl+i (Windows) or Command+i (Mac)

3. This will open the Console. From here you can determine the number of clips you've selected as well as how much time they all add up to be (see the image below).