That's good then, don't worry about your 'German English', I deal with people from all over the planet on other groups, so without looking I would of said you were English anyway! Most of the people on the other groups are using pretty old equipment, so I guess I just assumed you were using something 'antique' (almost).
Well, as they say over here, 'If it aint broke, don't fix it!' I must admit though, going totally solid state is really nice. I actually back everything up now (instead of that time taken ingesting I suppose), although its still nice to have the tapes in the end. Shame the firestore drives were/are so expensive. Thanks, Barry. On 21 November 2010 06:45, Uwe Soltau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Barry for wishing me good luck. I guess my "German English" must > be a bit > confusing sometimes. I never wrote ( I think) that I had a problem with > recording straight > onto the HDD via the laptop instead onto tape. I have been doing this > for a few years now > and NEVER had a single dropout or problem. > A while back I recorded 2 1/2 days (14hours) in chunks of 1 to 2 hours - > no problem. > Like many others I record this way to minimize mechanical wear in the > camera and to > save time. > No long winded capturing. > As I wrote earlier it just puzzled me to get different results when > checking the drive in > Win7 and XP. > Did my recording last night, plugged the drive into the editing computer > and started editing. > Have a nice day > Uwe > > > If you are using the external drive as a normal hard drive, (normal means > > dumping files one at a time onto it,) in theory it shouldn't really be > > fragmented at all, the files are logically 'placed' by the controller, in > > order. Some fragmentation will exist, but nowhere near the amount that an > > internal system drive will become, where files are being thrown all over > the > > place, scattering large files in any available slot. > > > > I once tried copying from a firewire drive to an external USB drive, what > a > > disaster! What should of taken a matter of minutes took hours. A laptop > > will probably use the same I/O controller for both and be much worse, so > I > > would do a test run first. > > Failing that, clear the laptop's hard drive (unwanted/needed files) onto > the > > external and use the laptop drive for the camera, different I/O circuitry > > and 'should' sustain the full data rate. Otherwise I perceive dropouts > will > > occur. > > > > Use IObit's "advanced windows care" defrag (in the advanced tools I > think), > > that's really quick and should speed the laptop up at least for this > > purpose. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Barry. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
