Re: Hard Drive configuration ? for Video Capture
- From: "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:31:29 -0700
"John" wrote ...
I have a dell Precision 490, I think it is. I just got a few months
ago the Blackmagic Intensity Pro Capture card. I am currently trying
to capture from a VCR in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 about 1.5 hours of
video.
"video"? HDV perhaps?
The computer has (2) 500 GB 7,200 RPM SATA drives in a Raid 0
configuration. My problem is that Premiere Pro seems to capture the
Video but when I hit ESC to stop recording Premiere will not save the
file. No dialog box comes up. Other than that I get no other error
messages. I have tried a one minute or so test file and that works
Ok. I am tring to capture in the Uncompressed 8 Bit Blackmagic
Format.
So how long will it run and capture a file? You seem to
have tried 1 minute, and 90 minutes, but any inbetween?
Have you tried any other HDV capture software?
Perhaps: http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm
The drives are about 60% full.
"drives"? You said you have a RAID0 array which is ONE
logical drive.
Why is it 60% full? When was the last time you de-fragged
it? I wouldn't attempt to start a 90 minute video project in
such a cluttered environment.
I hear a lot about that one should use one drive for the
OS and one for Video.
There seems to be no debate about that. It is never a
good idea to share a drive (whether a single physical
spindle, or two logical drives on a single spindle, or a
virtual RAID array) between video files and the boot/
system drive.
You didn't say why you have RAID in the first place,
or why you continue to want it?
Can I use the RAID controller as the Second drive and a
non RAID drive as the OS drive? I can not find much
information on this setup.
If it were me and I wanted to continue using the two 500GB
disks in a RAID 0 array, I would get another small (200-
300 GB) drive and use the new drive as the boot/system
drive (C:) and then use the RAID array as the data drive.
Of course, I would first have to convince myself that a
RAID array was necessary in the first place. Most people
seem to have RAID because it seems cool and Dell (or
whomever) will configure it for you. If you were doing
some high-bitrate format, maybe RAID might become
necessary. But DV and HDV run at only 25MB/s,
which is just idling along for most modern hard drives
used in desktop systems.
My personal preference is to buy raw drives at my local
shop (whatever has the most GB/$ at the moment) and
then use a USB2 cable to attach it to my computer. Then
I can just set the drive on the shelf when I am done with
the project (or it gets full, etc.) and buy another one when
I need it. Hard drives get cheaper every time you go back
to buy another one.
.
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