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New PC Configuaration for Vegas
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I think I finally get it!
My initial, somewhat limited understanding of Raid 0 was that its advantage was in its fast writing ability and that
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Surfer,
[surferj45] “Someone please tell me I
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I partitioned a 250gig HD in this way: 100gigs for system and programs, 20gigs for pagefile and temporary internet, downloads, etc and the remainder in a third partition for ‘My Documents.’ This works very well and very fast and keeps fragmentation down. When I need to reinstall for Vista – I will only need to clean off the first partition on the physical disk.
I also have two Raids of two HD’s each (two teras total) for video capture.
Anyway, that’s been my solution and it has worked well for me.
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Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks again for the info. I currently have the majority of my huge libraries of animations, music and sound FX stored on one external, non SATA drive connected through USB. It took a few days to transfer all of these files from the CDs and DVDs they came on. These files are also all tagged in specific catagories in Vegas Media Manager. So if I want a particular type of song or animation I can choose the appropriate catagory, get an instant preview and then drag and drop it on the timelime. Now I understand that it would be faster if this was an internal SATA drive used only for this purpose. I would then have a second internal SATA drive for storing the OS, Vegas and other applications and documents. And finally, I would have at least one set of drives in Raid 0 for only storing the captured AVI. This would give me my fastest real time previews also. Now, in this configuration which drive is best to render to?
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Rendering, an Meg2 file to the same drive as your captured footage is not a problem. A little more work for that drive’s head as it goes back and forth reading to render and finally writing back the Meg2. You won’t loose a frame. ANY drive can keep up with that pace.
Don’t forget: your original footage is never changed in Vegas or most other NLEs.
Personally, I render to another drive because when I wipe my capture drive clean for the next project, I don’t want to inadvertently delete rendered files for DVD or Flash Video – so I keep them separate for that reason and, pretty much, for that reason alone.
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Raymond,
[Raymond Motion Pictures] “I also have two Raids of two HD’s each (two teras total) for video capture.”
If you’re only working DV/HDV then 2 raid 0s of 2 drives each is a good way to work because you can move files from one to the other to clear off a set for reformating if fragmentation becomes too much of an issue.
Ron Shook
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Raymond,
[Raymond Motion Pictures] “Personally, I render to another drive because when I wipe my capture drive clean for the next project, I don’t want to inadvertently delete rendered files for DVD or Flash Video – so I keep them separate for that reason and, pretty much, for that reason alone.”
The other reason is that it is also an aid in archiving a project where you don’t need to archive the timecoded capture files because they can be recaptured from tape if you need to return to the project later.
Ron Shook
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Surfer,
[surferj45] “Now, in this configuration which drive is best to render to?”
As far as the basic operation of Vegas it doesn’t really matter, but for your media management it might be easier to have it on your library/scratch drive as Raymond and I explain below. It could also make things easier if you set 2 partitians on this drive, 1 for the library, and the other for renders and such.
Ron Shook
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[Ron Shook] “The other reason is that it is also an aid in archiving a project where you don’t need to archive the timecoded capture files because they can be recaptured from tape if you need to return to the project later.”
Exactly. It’s best to keep captured video (avi) files from tape on a drive or raid of drives separate from any rendering to…whatever that ‘rendering to’ may be. As Ron has noted, you can always back up the avi files from tape.
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