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Uncompressed Video Data Rate Calculator

Turn a frame size, frame rate, chroma sampling and bit depth into the raw data rate and storage, and see which SDI interface carries it.

pixels
pixels
fps, decimals allowed
samples per pixel
bits per sample
minutes
Enter the frame format to see its raw data rate.

Raw video is counted per sample: each pixel carries one luma sample, and the chroma sampling sets how many colour samples accompany it, so 4:4:4 is three samples per pixel, 4:2:2 is two and 4:2:0 is one and a half. The rate is frames per second times pixels times samples times bits, before any compression, blanking, ancillary data or audio. SDI figures are nominal SMPTE payload rates; storage uses decimal units (1 GB = 10⁹ bytes). Everything is calculated in this page and nothing is uploaded or stored.