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Setting up hard drives for Vegas and Sony Movie Studio Platinum
I am setting up some computers for a class that is using Movie Studio Platinum 12 and some will have Vegas Pro 12.
For the Platinum, the computers will have a 120GB SSD drive and a 1TB WD Black HDD. We will have ample of external space for storing video later so I am focusing on setting up the internal drives for the best rendering possible.
The SSD would hold Platinum and all progams and OS.
Which drive would best get the TEMP dir?
Which drive would best get the PRERENDERED dir?
Which drive SHOULD hold the original video files?
Which drive should I eventually RENDER to?
Am I missing something?For the other computer with Vegas Pro 12 and Platinum, there will be 3 hdd.
1 250GB SSD
1 1TB WD Black
1 2TB WD Black
Same question applies for this as for the other, but with one more hdd what would be done? Thanks so much. -
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[Scott Holt] “Which drive would best get the TEMP dir?”
Put the TEMP on the SSD (C:) drive.
[Scott Holt] “Which drive would best get the PRERENDERED dir?”
I keep that on my render drive but I rarely pre-render anything these days.
[Scott Holt] “Which drive SHOULD hold the original video files?”
If you only have the 1TB drive, obviously place the source there. If you also have a 2TB drive, you could place the source on the 2TB drive. This assumes your source files will be bigger than your rendered video so keep the source on the larger of the two drives and render to the smaller.
[Scott Holt] “Which drive should I eventually RENDER to?”
In both cases render to the 1TB drive. Renders will usually be smaller than your source files.
[Scott Holt] “Am I missing something?”
I doubt highly that the second drive will make any difference. With today’s codecs, file I/O is almost never the bottleneck when rendering. CPU/GPU will usually always be the bottleneck so you may not see any performance advantage in using two drives.
Now ask me if that’s how I keep my computer set up? 😉
Nope! I have an SSD for OS, Applications, and Temp files but I also have a 3TB drive and a 1TB drive. I keep all of my stock footage, music, etc. on the 3TB and I keep my entire project, including source and renders on the 1TB drive because at the end of the day, I’m waiting on my CPU/GPU to render and not my hard drives so I keep all of my work on a single drive for convenience. The key thing is that you keep your project files off of the C: drive.
~jr
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