User Manual

34 Resolutions and Storage Requirements
This chapter describes the different resolutions available in your Avid editing application and
lists their specifications. It also explains how to estimate the drive space you need to store your
captured media:
• Compression and Avid Editing Applications
• Monitor Display Resolutions
• Resolution Specifications
• Support for Uncompressed HD Media
• Mixing Resolutions
• Resolution Groups and Image Quality
• Estimating Drive Space Requirements
• Storage Requirements
• Considerations for Managing Storage
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The resolutions available in your Avid editing application depend on its model and options.
Compression and Avid Editing Applications
Avid editing applications support both compressed and uncompressed resolutions.
When an Avid editing application captures and stores compressed video, the compression
techniques affect the size of the resulting files and the resolution of the images they contain. The
less the data is compressed, the higher the image resolution, and the more drive space the file
requires.
Large media files at high resolutions can use very large amounts of drive space. When you are
choosing an image resolution for your project, you need to balance your requirements in terms of
image quality with your available drive resources. For detailed guidelines on estimating space
requirements, see “Storage Requirements” on page 1485.