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how do you work with numerious large projects?
Hello,
Im just wondering how you guys out there work with numerious video projects (Each about 150-300 GB in size).
Before CS4, I would use external USB 2.0 hard drives (which we have about 50 or so of) and edit off them. When CS4 came around it didnt work as well and I got a lot of feedback that editing off external drives is bad (Which i understand)
Anyone have suggestions on how to edit large projects without having to drag the contents on the external to an internal, Edit, then transfer them back to the external? Anyone do the same thing and have some secret?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I have worked on some large projects, most recently on a system that used a hdd caddy systems. It worked really well, the caddy’s are easy and cheap to install and presumably faster and more reliable than a firewire and usb external drives. I have used USB2 in the past once, and found that every now and then I would get artifacts. It took some time to establish that it was the USB2 that was creating the problem and I have never used it again since. I have been using regular firewire drives etc (seems to be really stable).
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Also, i’m not 100 percent sure of this, but I see no reason why if you have for instance 2 removable caddys on your system why you couldnt also run your projects of 2 HDDs in caddys in a raid for better performance or back up…
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