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acceptable to edit from a USB 2.0 external hard drive?
How much will this effect my project? I am running with 12 gigs of ram and on windows vista 64. I have over 300 gigs of videos connected to an external hard drive and I just don’t have the space to put them on my drive.
Will this work or do you advise against it? What will be the downfalls if there are any?
Thanks
-Ed
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with 12 gigs of ram I don’t think it will be a problem.
are you saying that the 300 gigs of video are all to be used in a single project? also, is this standard def or hi def?
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Its Standard. Of course I will not be using all 300 gigs but I will be uploading it in the project bin for accessibility.
thanks
-Ed
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Ed:
For what it’s worth,
I have been using external drives as low as 4200 RPM for more than 5 years now with no issues other than they are slower so the response and renders take longer.
As far as that goes, currently I am editing on an Acer Aspire One WinXP netbook and it is amazing. And yes, external drives are part of the workflow there too.
For best results I have found that putting the source footage on the C Drive is optimum. And then render the final out to the external. Either way, make sure the the Preview renders that Premiere creates go to a different drive than the drive with the source footage.
Good Luck!
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Things will be sluggish when editing video, but you can do it. I have before and I will never do it again, but if you have to do it that way then you have no choice. Your amount of RAM should help a little.
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The problem with that amount of video is that Premiere will be slow accessing it all. You may experience freezing, etc.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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