USB 2 vs Firewire

Adobe Premiere Pro

USB 2 vs Firewire

Posted by Curtis Savage on April 28, 2006 at 2:25 am

Hi,

I have a labtop running adobe premiere pro 2.0 and Windows Media Encoder.

I want to attach an external drive to keep all video files and media files I’ll be editing with. So my scratch disk will be an external drive.

Since my laptob doesn’t have a firewire port, can I use a USB 2 drive as my scratch disk/media drive?

Or will it not be able to keep up?

I should not that I do not need device control of a DV camera, as I will strictly be editing wmv files and never DV clips. The wmv files are always 320 x 240 and never over 1000 kb/s.

For any situations where I need to edit DV and capturing I have a G5 running Final Cut Pro.

I am just worried because I’m not sure if USB 2 is even a possible option…Will I run into problems with this setup? Should I purchase another laptop with Firewire capabilities?

Thanks,
Curtis

Aanarav Sareen replied 20 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Aanarav Sareen
April 28, 2006 at 3:34 am

[curtis savage] “Since my laptob doesn’t have a firewire port, can I use a USB 2 drive as my scratch disk/media drive?”

Yes, you can use a USB drive. Make sure that it is atleast 7200rpm.

[curtis savage] “I will strictly be editing wmv files and never DV clips. The wmv files are always 320 x 240 and never over 1000 kb/s.”

Premiere Pro does not like highly compressed files and is not designed to edut such files . You will be better off using Premiere Elements.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
Curtis Savage
April 28, 2006 at 12:30 pm

Thanks Aanarav,

Good to know. i actually own elements as well. The only problem is that it doesn’t recognize .asf files and the files I receive are all .asf.

Are there any other decent programs with subtitling capabilities out there that can handle wmv without having to render in the timeline?

Cheeers
Aanarav Sareen
April 28, 2006 at 2:29 pm

I don’t know of any such programs, but why the highly compressed files?

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
Curtis Savage
April 28, 2006 at 4:10 pm

I receive these files via FTP, trim, subtitle and post internet for streaming, so there are bandwidth limitations as sources come from areas of the world with just dial up connections so for them to upload high res files is not an option…
Aanarav Sareen
April 29, 2006 at 4:21 am

Thanks for the extra info. But, as mentioned earlier, you may not be too pleased with the way Premiere Pro performs with such highly compressed files.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com

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