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external hard drive for editing
Hi guys, am currently making a documentary. Have 60 hours footage, will end up with about 80. Filmed on a Sony FX1 in high definition.
I want to buy an external hard drive for capturing and editing.
I may capture footage at home on Adobe Premier (windows xp)if it works as it would be a lot more convenient for me to do from home, or at work on final cut pro, and then edit all of it on final cut pro.
Just not sure what is best in an external drive.I was looking at something like the Western Digital 1TB My Book Home External Hard Drive. This one has usb 2.0 firewire 400 and esata. Would this be applicable?? Or do i need something more expensive, robust, reliable etc
Would there be any problems capturing the footage on Adobe Premier and then editing on a mac/final cut pro?Sorry for any ignorance here. I’m not sure what is best.
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Avoid MYBOOK. THose are consumer drives, not professional ones. G-Tech, CalDigit, MaxxDIgital…Other World Computing makes good drives.
https://www.suitetake.com/2009/07/27/opinion-even-if-youre-cheap-dont-cheap-out-on-your-hard-drives/
Shane
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I have 2 MyBook Studio external drives (500GB and 1TB) and they work very well.I use Firewire 400 and 800 connection working with lots of different kinds of footage.The speed of these drives are very good and for me they are reliable.
I also use G-Raid drives as well, but one of the Firewire port on the 2TB G-Raid drive is broken because of some reason.Apart from this it’s reliable regards to storage and speed.I also use 2, 1TB drives and they are perfect.In my opinion I can recommend you MyBook Studio Series and G-Raid as well.I don’t have experience with other external drives.
Tamas Erdosi / http://www.tamaserdosi.eu
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You are going to need much more then 1TB of space for 80 hours.
https://www.videospaceonline.com/i/
On top of just the captured video you also need room for render files and other things.
Plus on a media drive you should always leave 20% free so the drive can function to it’s fullist.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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thanks for the replies guys..
i am looking into the g-raid drives etc, but seems there isn’t many options or places to buy here in Melbourne Australia.
Is there any problem with using the drive for windows xp and mac? any known problems there?
thanks again for the responses.
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remember, Macs don’t like PC formatted drives…they will see them, but won’t write t them…use a Mac formatted drive, and MacDrive if you are working on the PC, then the drive will be fine for FCP.
We have a few Gtech drives, and aside from 1 G3 losing it’s controller board, they have been great. (the G3 was constantly spinning, which it shouldn’t have been). We have also has some good success with Maxtor One Touch drives, but for editing, I would stick with the Gtech G3, and get an eSata card to connect with. FW800 is good for just about anything, but eSata is much more gooder!
Broadway Video, NYC
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The thing you have to remember with Final Cut is that it really has to see QuickTime. Premiere Pro on the PC can see a number of codecs including Quicktime. If you’re going to log your clips with Premiere Pro and then edit in FCP, just be sure that you create a Premiere Pro preset that allows you to capture in Quicktime.
As for drives, I have used G-Tech for years and they have always been very good to me.
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