Nolan, you didn't say but if you are using Final Cut use the external hard drive as you scratch drive. This can be set up in your preferences. I do a lot of editing on my powerbook using an external firewire drive all the files for the project are on that drive. When I finish a project I export and save to the drive then hook it up to the studio's G5 and let it do the compressing. Has worked out great and has been a good productive workflow. I have used my powerbook hard drive without any problems but I never do long captures with it. As I like to start editing with the captures. Adding titles to each capture after it is finished lets you get organized in your head how you want to fit things together. -----Original Message----- From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 6:37 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: video storage/editing
A probably naive question: I've just completed filming my first (amateur) video -- an adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's story, "Good Country People." The raw footage runs about 26GB. I have downloaded it (4 cassettes) and saved it on a 300GB external hard drive. That leaves about 46GB on my internal HD. The edited version should run about 30-40 minutes. Which drive should I use for editing, or does it matter? I suspect that this is not a question of there being a wrong choice, but simply of getting advice from those with experience, about which is more convenient or makes more sense. Much thanks. Nolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051102/88b0f71a/attachment.html
