[ARSCLIST] Estiamting total hours of project

[Leslie Winter <lesliewinterleslie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recently, I hepled out a friend who was overwhelmed by a project transfering
from tape (old cassette) to HD then to CD.
He underestimated the total time of the project. I use this formula to
estimate the total hours.

a=total time dumping to HD
b=editing and burning per unit(my projects usually avg 10 minutes of editing
per transfer)
c=amount of tapes being archived (transfered)
d=length of tapes (30, 45, 60 etc...)
e=add 10% to total time for trouble shooting,  coffee breaks and other misc.
activities
f=total hours of project


So, if you have 100 (60 min.)  cassettes to transfer to CD
c X d=a
100 x 60= 6000 minutes
now consider some editing
so 6000 + (b X c)
6000 + (10 X 100) = 7000 mniutes
now add 10% to the 7000 minutes
f=7700 minutes
Total project time is 7700 minutes
128.3 hours.

Sounds confusing but it works for me.
Later
Leslie

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