AJA releases free DataCalc for iPhone

AJA has released a new iPhone application (iTunes Link) that can compute the estimated storage space you’ll need for a wide variety of resolutions, codecs, and framerates.  It is missing a few things, like DNxHD:

Don’t expect DNxHD since Avid doesn’t support AJA hardware in the majority of its products. Using the app is easy: just select your codec, frame rate, audio and how you are inputting the time and you get a readout of the total data storage required:

It’s a good replacement for existing websites like Video Space Online or Digital Rebellion’s Footage Calc that works standalone in the field.

via Studio Daily Blog » AJA releases free DataCalc for iPhone.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .