Re: Brand new to this stuff. Will my system cope? 2 drives or 3?
- From: "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:13:39 -0600
"RS" <mail@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:43ff7058$1_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ewinter@xxxxxxxx wrote:
This is my first post at this group. Please tell me if I should be in a
different forum.
I'm suddenly fascinated by the prospect of creating videos for my
ecommerce websites. Software demos, talking heads, video testimonials,
etc.
I've gone nuts this week reading about software and buying some
hardware.
I've bought the following and am curious to know if this setup will be
a good one.
Software:
Camtasia
Sony Vegas + DVD
Adobe Audition
Hardware:
Vaio Desktop
VGC-RB36G
3.2Ghz
800Mhz bus
1 GB memory PC3200 400hz
ATI Radeon X300
DVD Rom
DVD+-RW, DVD+R Double Layer (Not sure what this means)
200GB 7200 Serial ATA
Lavalier Mic
DV Video Camera
Here's my biggest question:
I just bought an External Drive for holding raw footage.
250GB Maxtor 8MB Cache 7200 ATA 100 Firewire/USB 2 ($90 at TigerDirect)
But then I read some posts hear saying that you shouldn't do your
capture or render on the same drive as your OS AND also that you should
not do rendor on the same drive as your Raw footage.
You 'can' do everything with just one drive. Its just not as efficient,
and sometimes people have problems. However, there is no recommendtion
that I know of that your footage, renders, ect cannot all reside one
non-os drive. I do it all the time. I use swappable drives and typically
use one 200gig drive for a project, or related group of small projects.
OK... back to TigerDirect to buy an internal drive.
Found what sounded like a GREAT deal 200MB Maxtor 7200 SATA 150 with
16MB cache $70! (It's a refurb)
The question I have now... what the heck do I do with all of this
stuff?
My plan is to put the NEW 200 SATA w/16MB in the box and to use it for
capturing and rendering. I would plan to install all of the programs on
the current drive (200GB Sata - 8 MB cache, I think). But then to move
raw footage to the external once I no longer need it.
You have two 200Gig Sata drives? I think you will find you have tons of
unused space. Perhaps also use that OS drive as a nice space for all extra
stuff you collect. Stills, music, animations, ect. Use you second Sata as
your project drive, and use your external as a nice place to shuffle stuff
off to that you are not working on at the moment.
I really don't even know what this means... I presume that I will be
able to run the program from the current HD and tell it where to store
the captured file, yes?
What exactly should I be storing on the External?
No need to decide right away. Just let it sit and sooner or later it you
will see exactly what to store there.
Does the 16MB cache on the new SATA drive do anything for me?
Just makes em faster is all, but drive read/write speed is not the
bottleneck in video editing, memory and processor speed.
What is the potential bottleneck of the system? (Not that I'm buying
ANYTHING new in the next few days :-)
Your Viao should already have firewire drives. (Believe they may call them
1394), so, basically you have all you need. No real bottleneck. The
slowest part of video is always the render process, and that is pretty
just processor and memory.
I very much appreciate any comments and advice you all could give. I
look forward to contributing to the forums myself shortly.
The sad fact is that you can't really predict exactly what will
work best in every workflow situation, ahead of actually doing it.
I often recommend the use of separate drives to optimize the
throughput. This was useful to avoid glitches on lower performing
systems during capture and processing. Even with current systems
the smooth flow of data provides a benefit, avoiding collision and
contention delays. SATA implementations are usually one channel
per drive which is optimal.
Basically, the idea is to input to a process from one drive and output
to a different drive on another (master) channel. The file/directory
structure that you set the software to use (including any temporary
files/directories) should be made to take this into account.
I have also recommended the use of attached drives in the manner
RS describes. Keeping the project(s) files together is a great benefit.
You can do both with directly attached drives like those on a
"carrier" that plug-in to a rack mounted in your system. SATA II is
again a great solution as it is "Hot Swapable". As are "Firewire" drives.
Luck;
Ken
P.S. You might want to checkout www.seriousmagic.com
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