[Bruce Quayle]

Hi Ron,
Sound advice! Thanks.
I have researched the archiving issue related to EX1 files and decided to do just that: Duplicate external hard drive copies of the material.
Your advice on the internal hard drives is interesting and enlightening. I need to keep my mini suite down to manageable proportions as space and power consumption are both key issues. Although I would prefer to offline on location, this is not essential. I can do this when I get back to civilisation if necessary. However I do need to be able to produce DVDs on location as will as have the ability to upload video to the internet occasionally. I believe that Vegas should be able to do this for me.
So perhaps I need to keep the drives separate and use one for the programs and the other for the media. Do you think that this would work? I gather that 7200rpm drives are essential, correct?
Thanks again for your very helpful comments and sensible advice.
Cheers,
Bruce

[Bruce Quayle]

Hi Steve, Mike and David.
Please correct me if I misunderstand this: Are you saying that provided I have a hard drive running at 7200rpm, I don’t need an inbuilt raid system? I am looking at buying a Gateway P-172X FX with RAID 0…(as Steve is aware). Would it be better to keep the drives non raid? This would increase my storage capacity, but wouldn’t it slow down my editing in HD?
Cheers,
Bruce

[Bruce Quayle]

Steve, I have always used Nuendo for my audio production, but this of course requires the rest of my studio to go with it. Field production is a whole different ball of wax and working on a small boat makes things even more complicated…so enter Vegas.
Yeah Danny, I was concerned that the EDL might not be totally compatible. I’d sure be interested in the results of your test when you get the chance. As the production will be a documentary, I doubt the offline will consist of anything much more complicated than cuts with the odd disolve, mix and slo-mo… And as long as I can include all the audio tracks I’ll need – I doubt I’ll ever need more than about 6 tracks.
I’m in a bit of a quandry as to the OS. Obviously XP seems to work, but will I be restricting myself by not moving up to Vista – future upgrades, 64 bit, etc?
So I’ll keep an eye on the forum from now on.
Thanks again to you both for your comments and help.
Bruce

[Bruce Quayle]

Thanks for the quick response guys. Yes, I have been researching my move to Vegas for some months and believe that it suits my purposes in the field. I will be shooting on the Sony PMW-EX1. BTW the Gateway is loaded with 4 gigs of ram.
Although a lot of my work will be completed on Vegas, some will be simply offline to be finished later on an Avid. I am working on the belief that Vegas 8 will put out an EDL that will be compatible with Avid.
One of the features that turned me on to Vegas was indeed the excellend audio capabilities available.
Thanks for the welcome and the advice. I will be reading these forum posts voraciously and will probably be back with some dumb newby questions. Please bear with me and my new learning curve.
Cheers,
BQ