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Editing Video on USB 2 External Drive.

post #1 of 8
2/24/05 at 11:32pm
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I think that I figured out what I am going to do.

Step 1> Capture to my desktop.
Step 2> Transfer video to my external 5400 rpm USB 2 hard drive (40 gig cap.)
Step 3> With the video on the external I have the option to edit on my desktop, or on my laptop.

Becuase of battery/power consumption I really don't edit video on the laptop unless it's plugged into a power supply. I can use the external drive to edit on either machines since the files will always be in the same directory. I know that the final render/export on the desktop will be slow, but I am willing to sacrifice time to have the option of video editing on the laptop. Wish me luck.

In fact, I might just go to Fry's tommmorow and buy a 80+ Gig external drive. One that is 7200 rpm with 8 mb buffer. The 40 gig I use now is hella old.
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post #2 of 8
2/24/05 at 11:50pm
I use a Hauppauge PVR2 USB2 vid capture card with an external 7200 rpm drive and I seem to have plenty of bandwidth. The PVR2 is an external MPEG compressor, however, so my max data rate is 12 Mbit / sec.
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post #3 of 8
2/25/05 at 12:44am
Get a 7200 RPM drive at least. I have been told even in Audio the difference in large enough that it is well worth it.

Seablade
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post #4 of 8
2/25/05 at 12:46am
Actually to add onto that, not sure how much you looking to spend etc, I would imagine not much, but you could try the LaCie triple port drives. I picked up a 160 gig for about 160 bucks. Not a bad deal and since it has USB 2.0 as well as both Firewire 400 and 800 I have my choice, though as I can I try to stick with the 800 myself, MUCH faster.

Seablade
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post #5 of 8
2/25/05 at 12:46am
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Another reason that I want to use an external drive is because I wouldn't have to worry about the effect of heat on my laptop. My laptop does have a 7200 RPM HD. It doesnt get too hot, but still, repetitve importing/rendering/exporting over time; I wouldn't want to burn the hard drive out.
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post #6 of 8
2/25/05 at 1:44am
>Another reason that I want to use an external drive is because I wouldn't have to worry about the effect of heat on my laptop. My laptop does have a 7200 RPM HD. It doesnt get too hot, but still, repetitve importing/rendering/exporting over time; I wouldn't want to burn the hard drive out.

Good reason depending on the laptop Just make sure you keep a backup of all your work at one point or another. Typically External drives dont get banged around much more than Laptops, but you never know, and its good practice anyways, recent horror story I could relay on that from my own life.

Seablade
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post #7 of 8
2/25/05 at 1:58am
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Ok, so what's with this?-

I created an Adobe Premiere project on my laptop.
I transfered all the files to my external drive.
But when I open the project on my desktop, this is the problem I have:

I can hear the audio on the timeline, but I can't see the video in the monitor.

I right click>properties on the vide segment and the path is correct, but I CAN'T SEE THE VIDEO FROM THE TIMELINE IN THE MONITOR.

AARRGGH!!! All I want to do is be able to work on a project with two different machines.

Maybe I just have to start the project/sequence on the external and keep it on the external. No swapping files to other PC's.
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post #8 of 8
2/25/05 at 2:14am
Cant help ya sorry. I dont work enough with video(That is next up on my list of things to learn more about

Seablade
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