Re: Hard Drive configuration ? for Video Capture

Hi,

First I found out what was wrong. The bigger the file, longer
recording time, the longer it took before the Save As dialog box was
appearing. So I thought it was not working. If I hit ESC or stop and
waited long enough it eventually worked.
My RAID drives are 60% full because I have not removed all my
finished projects to my External backup drive. I know a little about
RAID configuration since I have my MCSE in Windows 2000. The research
I did when I purchased this computer said that if I wanted to do HD I
needed a really fast Hard Drive. True, right now I am only doing NTSC
quality converting from an analog VHS-C camera. RAID 0 will give me
more speed almost twice as fast as non RAID. That is why I am using
RAID. RAID is usually used for fault tolerence so if one drive goes
out the others keep running and you don't lose any data. RAID 0 is
setup for speed only no fault tolerance. What I did not know is that I
can use a non-RAID drive in conjunction with a RAID setup. So, I am
going to get a new Hard Drive 500Gb (because the price is only $79US)
and configure my computer for the OS on the non-RAID drive and
dedicate the RAID drives to Video only by putting all my program files
and photos on my non RAID drive. I use external USB drives for project
backups. I started out using a Sony notebook and Premiere Pro 2.0 plus
an external drive. I had a big learning curve at that time. tt worked
surprisingly well for the setup. Not great but good enough at that
time. Even with a Dual core 3Ghz Xeon CPU I still have times where the
timeline will not play unless I prerender it do to the special efects
I am using. If you have any suggestion on tweeks to help this issue
let me know. My graphics is the FX Quatro 3500. Way over kill I know.
The main problem I was and am having is that in the final DVD I get
glitches. It is the type of glitches like if there are finger prints
on the disc. I still don't know exactly why this is happening. I first
thought my computer was two slow while creating the DVD/encoding the
files. CPU and or HD speed. My computer is definently way fast enough
so this should not be a problem. But that is why I thought I needed to
have this fast of a computer. What do you guys think.I would greatly
appreciate it if I could figure out the answer. I am thinking now
that it is just in the manufacturing of the discs. This is my best
guess. Some times I can get a copy to come out perfect or almost
perfect and other times not. This is really frustrating to me. I am
using TDK DVDs with the inkjet lable on them. I do not get any write
error during the process.
Then I thought this may be do to the capture process because I was
captuing some data and playing it back in the timeline and I did see
the same glitches as described above.
One other thing how would you configure the scratch disk setting?
Would you configure the scratch disc to use the OS drive?
Since I am reinstalling the OS I am thinking of getting Win 64bit. The
main reason is that I have 4GB RAM and the 32bit Win will only use
3GB. From time to time in Premiere Pro I get out of Memory errors and
I am only doing Standard Def NTSC video. I do like to run Premiere and
Photoshop CS3 Extended at the same time.

Thanks,

John

On Aug 3, 1:31 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"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
logicaldrive.

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 onedrivefor the
OS and one for Video.

There seems to be no debate about that. It is never a
good idea to share adrive(whether a single physical
spindle, or two logical drives on a single spindle, or a
virtual RAID array) between video files and the boot/
systemdrive.

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 Seconddriveand a
 non RAIDdriveas the OSdrive? 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)driveand use the newdriveas the boot/systemdrive(C:) and then use the RAID array as the datadrive.

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 modernharddrives
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 thedriveon the shelf when I am done with
the project (or it gets full, etc.) and buy another one when
I need it.  Harddrives get cheaper every time you go back
to buy another one.

.

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