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Setting up hard drives for Vegas and Sony Movie Studio Platinum
This may be a double post but I can’t seem to find it.
I am setting up some computers for a class that is using Movie Studio Platinum 12 and some will have Vegas Pro 12.
For the Platinum, the computers will have a 120GB SSD drive and a 1TB WD Black HDD. We will have ample of external space for storing video later so I am focusing on setting up the internal drives for the best rendering possible.
The SSD would hold Platinum and all progams and OS.
Which drive would best get the TEMP dir?
Which drive would best get the PRERENDERED dir?
Which drive SHOULD hold the original video files?
Which drive should I eventually RENDER to?
Am I missing something?For the other computer with Vegas Pro 12 and Platinum, there will be 3 hdd.
1 250GB SSD
1 1TB WD Black
1 2TB WD Black
Same question applies for this as for the other, but with one more hdd what would be done? Thanks so much. -
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I keep my setup fairly simple:
OS is on SSD
Vegas Pro is on same SSD
All video files, project files, temp & render directories are on 6gb/s 7200rpm Seagate 1TB hard drive (my motherboard has multiple 6gb/s SATA controllers).You can install a 2nd hard drive (7200rpm 6gb/sec. would be plenty) and use that to install the Vegas Pro software, as well as all project directories/temp/render files but with today’s hardware performance I don’t think you’d see any benefit.
My setup is not optimum, since if I had 2 drives striped as RAID 0 i’d get max performance, but I have yet to have any hiccups/dropped frames/stuttering/etc.
Dave
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