[Charles Fasano]

Thank you Simon for responding.
Some background, I’m a marine biologist using video to collect data so I’m not doing any heavy graphics work. I do sometimes sell my clips to a HD station but I just send them the raw footage. I am shooting 1080i HD so I have my FC setting to HDV1080i60.
Currently, I have 60hrs of tape that is taking up approx 700gb on a 1tb ext harddrive so I was thinking of setting the other 1tb ext hd as the video/audio render drive and using it as the drive where the actual FC file is stored. In other words, 1 ext hd is used for capture purposes only and the other is for storing the actual working fc file (*.fcp) and for video/audio rendering. Is this a suggested set-up? If not, what would be recommended?

Thanks again.
-Charlie-