Uncompressed video is digital video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 information that has not been compressed, or was not processed with compression on it when the video was captured directly from a camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

. It has variable data transfer rates

Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding. As opposed to constant bitrate , VBR files vary the amount of output data per time segment...

. Native digital video capture rates are roughly 30 Mbit/s.

Storage and Data Rates for Uncompressed Video

The storage and data rates for uncompressed video are listed below:

525 NTSC uncompressed

8 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 27 MB per/sec, or 94 GB per/hr.

625 PAL uncompressed

8 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 26 MB per/sec, or 93 GB per/hr.

720p HDTV uncompressed

8 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 105 MB per/sec, or 370 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 140 MB per/sec, or 494 GB per/hr.

1080i and 1080p HDTV uncompressed

8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24fps = 95 MB per/sec, or 334 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24fps = 127 MB per/sec, or 445 GB per/hr.


8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 25fps = 99 MB per/sec, or 348 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 25fps = 132 MB per/sec, or 463 GB per/hr.


8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97fps = 119 MB per/sec, or 417 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97fps = 158 MB per/sec, or 556 GB per/hr.

1080i and 1080p HDTV RGB (4:4:4) uncompressed

10 bit @ 1280 x 720p @ 60fps = 211 MB per/sec, or 742 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24fps = 190 MB per/sec, or 667 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 50i = 198 MB per/sec, or 695 GB per/hr.

10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 60i = 237 MB per/sec, or 834 GB per/hr.