Calculating the size of your dataset before starting a time-lapse
Unfortunately Volocity does not automatically calculate the size of your dataset before you start a time-lapse. It also does not warn you if you will fill the hard disc up during the acquisition. It is therefore critically important that you calculate how large your dataset will be before you start and work out whether the hard disc will reach capacity before the time-lapse finishes. It may be that you are acquiring more data than you need and just a few simple changes to the acquisition could reduce the size of the dataset dramatically. I have written a technical not that describes how to calculate the eventual size of your dataset, how to check whether you will fill up the hard disc and how you can reduce the size of the dataset or otherwise offset the chances of time-lapse failure due to exceeding the hard disc capacity. The technical note is available as a PDF below: