The Ultimotion compression techniques used on live video sources balance how well an image's detail is retained with how much time can be taken to analyze and compress the image. Symmetric Ultimotion compression uses the following items to determine the size and speed of symmetrically compressed Ultimotion videos:
A 320 x 240 movie recorded at 15 frames per second at medium quality requires 9MB per minute of video. Reducing either the resolution, frame rate, or quality setting reduces the amount of storage required.