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OT: After FX and Final Cut on a Powerbook
hello,
Can anyone tell me if the 5400rpm Ultra ATA harddrives that Apple offers for the Powerbooks are fast enough to work on Final Cut and After FX?
I always thought that video editing requires a 7200 drive…and I was really surprised to see that they dont have those as an option…
thanks in advance and sorry for posting this here..
kind regards
renato -
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Yes. The disk speed requirements are somewhat less stringent from those for video editing, since editing assumes you want some kind of real-time playback from disk, which is not possible on AE, no matter what the platform.
To see your composition play back in AE, you create a RAM preview. You wait and watch the images render and store in RAM, then when all the appropriate RAM space is filled (or sooner, if you have chosen a short preview), the frames will play back at the proper frame rate (or half that if you’ve set it to do that).
AE generally is more dependent on processor speed and amount of RAM (up to 2 GB for the app) than disk speed. However, faster disk speed can allow your render to happen faster, since AE wouldn’t have to take as long to find the footage.
So yes, go ahead.
Steve -
wow that was fast…thanks a lot for the input Steve.
So that solves it for AE…now I hope it wont give me drop frames or other problems on Final Cut.
kind regards
renato -
Regarding drop frames and such on FCP, it all depends on the data rate of your codec. Your drive should be able to play DV and Photo-JPEG.
Ideally, you should have your footage on another external firewire drive so you’re not making the system drive work the OS and the footage at the same time.
Anyway, for more info, feel free to check out the FCP forum at the COW or elsewhere.
Steve
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great advice Steve.. somehow I forgot about external drives.. And I will check the FCP foruns as you suggested…sorry again for posting it here and thanks for the fast replies.
kind regards
renato -
Ciao Renato,
If you’re the Renato that makes C4d plug-ins you’ll be happy to know I just bought three of them!If you’re not Renato Tarabella then ignore the above. 🙂
As for Powerbook internal drives, I use Final Cut and AE on a 12″ Powerbook G4.
I capture just fine using the internal drive.
While I usually offload the captures to an external FW 7200 drive and use that for my clips I have also on occasion left the clips on the internal. Either way I have never had dropped frames. -
heheh nope I am not the renato you are thinking of…
thanks a lot for the info… its great to hear it from someone that is working with a powerbook…
so I guess the problem is solved! and its truly appreciated..
kind regards
renato
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