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Is exporting a file to desktop faster than to an external hd?
When expoerting using Compressor is it faster to render out to an external drive? Or is it the same speed to render to the desk top?
I am being given AVI files from a Novia Quick Capture Hard Disk recorder. Apparently it only records .mov’s and avi’s. Should I convert these AVI’s into DV movies before using them? I ask this because it seems to take a long time to export the sequence i create with the AVI’s. I understand this is because the AVI is not the best format for FCP to work with. I have heard AVI’s are very processor intensive. I have to get the final sequence out as fast a possible for it to be aired on an internal video network so I don’t know if converting the files first will take just as much time as converting them on the compressor export?
Any Ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
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2 Replies
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Leave them as is, though real-time performance might suffer a bit.
exporting won’t be any slower in the end, your just making more work for yourself and a possible generation loss.
if your internal drive is sata and your external is firewire 400 or usb it could be slower to export.
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[Richard Pengelly] “When expoerting using Compressor is it faster to render out to an external drive? Or is it the same speed to render to the desk top? “
Hi Richard,
In general the disks don’t have much influence in the speed of Compressor.
Compressor doesn’t need to read as fast as FC that some times need to read many clips at the same time.
For writing is the same. In general the rendering in Compressor is so slow, that hardly a HD can be a bottle neck.
About the AVI files I can not help you much. I do work with them quite seldom.
Cheers,
rafael
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