30 frames would then use 27,648,000 bytes or nearly 28 megabytes. At this rate, one minute of broadcast quality video would consume 1,658,880,000 bytes or 1.65888 gigabytes of hard disk storage. Most computers today ship with between 1 and 2 gigabytes of storage making their hard drives inadequately small for storing broadcast quality video. Fortunately, multimedia video doesn't have to be broadcast quality to be usable. By using various compression schemes the storage requirements can be even further reduced.
Compression can greatly reduce storage requirements often with little loss of picture quality.
Apple Computer's QuickTime Software One of Apple Computer's most brilliant innovations is the continuing development of QuickTime. QuickTime began as a set of system extensions to Macintosh System 7 to allow users to play digitized video in a small window on the screen. Today QuickTime is a comprehensive multimedia tool for storing video, animations, and sound in a variety of formats. The answer is plenty. QuickTime MIDI movies use just a little more disk storage space than the MIDI files on which they are based.