What size of USB flash memory stick do I need?

Depends. Are you using any compression at all? Thirty minutes of uncompressed HD video will be 60+ gigs, so no, it won’t be anywhere near enough. But you can compress it quite a lot without any visible differences, Likewise the photos. The size of the photos and how much compression will make a huge difference. Like, two or three orders of magnitude difference.

I checked my videos and photos to get an idea of the size for each kind.

My larger photos (mostly JPG) are 200+ KB.

My two largest are:

1. 2448×3264, 1461 KB
2. 1123×1665, 921 KB.

If your photos are in this size range, then 1 GB should take care of your photos.

I have an HD video with a 34:31 runtime. It uses 3.01 GB, so it seems that 3 GB would be enough for your videos.

So I’d say 10 GB will be sufficient.

Here is a calculator for various resolutions, pixels, etc. of both photos and video.

According to this calculator, 1hr of HD 1080p video would need 11 gigs. Get a Toshiba 32 gig stick down at Walmart for about $8.00.

i don’ think so it’ll be enough..You need a 16G or bigger

You don’t have to put it all on one drive. 32gb seems to be the best value right now though.

Just right click on the folder that all the photos/videos are in. Hit the Properties tab and that will give you information on the size of the files in the folder. Get a USB larger than that.

Often I download pirated HD versions of hard-to-get films from the net and play them with the VLC app. I have no idea if they are compressed. I know that I don’t have to manually decompress them when I play as they play direct after downloading onto my hard drive. I often put them on a 32G Toshiba flash drive to preserve memory space on the hard drive. I usually watch them from the flash drive and decide which ones I will keep on an exterior terabyte drive.

I can store up to about eight of these HD 1080p films on the the 32G flash drive before it maxes out. They range anywhere from 1.5Gs to a monstrous 3.5G version of the last Batman film which was the biggest one so far—- except one.

I once copped a color copy of Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean, 1955) from some guy in India and it came in at a whopping 35Gs. I couldn’t see much difference in it and other color copies that ran about 1.5Gs, so I dumped it. I have no idea why some of these new newer HD films come in at such size discrepancies, but they do. For example, the other night, I downloaded a beautiful remastered technicolor copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Liz Taylor, Paul Newman, 1958)—the best I’ve ever seen with excellent, clean sound at 1.16Gs. I go for quality and usually an HD film that takes up anywhere from 1G to 1.5Gs has excellent 1080p resolution and great moviehouse audio.

32Gs works for me.

Can’t you just send it via email…easier.

@Inspired_2write My yahoo mail only lets me attach 6 or 8 pictures to an e-mail.

Most video files are too large to send via email. For example, Gmail’s max is 25MB. Even an old, black and white 720p film like the Maltese Falcon will run about 750MBs. You have to use a service like DropBox or ShareFile for multi-gigabyte files.. They give free 30-day trials, but they have bots that flag and identify video files and, if you are sending copyrighted material, you are at risk of coming under the eye of law enforcement. The same with using the cloud, such as Google Chrome which maxes out nicely at 10Gs.

The entertainment industry is losing billions every year to pirated material and it pisses them off and in the past few years they’ve gotten surprisingly aggressive about seemingly arbitrary prosecutions that put the fear of god into the little guys who just want to watch films for free, not resale them.

So, just a warning. If you’re not transfering copyrighted materials, it’s OK.

@gondwanalon
yahoo has a feature called “dropbox” that allows more to be shared.

From what I understand, it isn’t the size of the memory stick that matters, it is how you use it.