Norman Willis
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Fernando,
Are you on a desktop, or a laptop? Desktops are much better, because all of that activity generates a lot of heat (which kills components). Desktops do much better with heat, but some guys need a laptop because they have to take the computer with them when they shoot. I do that sometimes also, but when I can I use the desktop.
If you have a desktop you should have room for more internal hard drives. If you have a laptop you may have room for one more internal drive, or you may not.
The thing is that H.264 is very, very, very tightly compacted. It is like vacuum packaging. To ask the computer to unpack, and then do its thing, and then re-pack in real time is asking a whole lot, especially with only two cores. Four cores is much better, and what Cineform NeoScene does is it un-vacuum-packs the files for you, so your cores can process them much easier. I have a quad core but I still like to use it. Also, if you ever do any kind of keying or effects, it makes it much, much easier on your computer.
Norman Willis
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Fernando,
The thing is to have at least two physical hard drives. Not logical partitions where C and D live on the same drive: but separate drives.
A hard drive uses a read-write head (like a record player needle) to get data to and from the drive. Windows can keep a hard drive busy all by itself. So you need at least one more physical hard drive, 7200 RPM or faster. Also, HD files are huge, so bigger is better.
Basically, when you edit video, you are doing a defrag in reverse. The computer has to pull a lot of data from a lot of different places and put it to a different place. That is a lot. Having more physical drives is like having extra people to help you pack a moving van. The more people you have, the easier it goes.
Norman Willis
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Hi Ron.
The COW is a great resource, and I am very thankful for it.
But I wonder why that particular COW leader didn’t just set up some better personal boundaries. If he/she was not OK with receiving calls, then why did he/she just not say ‘please contact me through the COW Forum’, and then contact you if they would not?
Again, thanks for your great resource.
Norman Willis
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Thanks for your help with this, by the way
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I dunno. What can I say? I have not been a DSLR user for too long, but I have read more than once about people saying the smaller cards are slower.
If you have a system that works for you, great.
Personally I use the 32GB Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s and have not had any problems. So I’ll probably just stick with that.
And I agree with offloading as often as possible, and backing up to a few different external sources before reformatting the cards. Just seems like the way to go.
Norman Willis
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The thing with the external hard drive is that the transfer speeds on USB 2.0 or Firewire 400 are not fast enough. When USB 3.0 comes out, that will be fast enough, as the internal hard drive speeds are somewhere between 3GB/sec and 6GB/sec, depending on the hard drive you are using.
USB 3.0 will be 5GB/sec (i.e., faster than many internal drives), so that will be a game-changer. You will pretty much be able to treat USB 3.0 thumb drives as an internal solid state drive (not quite, but almost).
But at the moment USB 2.0 is pretty much good only for backing up your C:\ OS drive, and your D:\ data drive.
Norman Willis
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Hey Fernando.
Good questions and good info. Typically, to edit HD one wants at least four cores. Can you upgrade your processor to a CoreDuo Quad? It does not have to be one of the top models. But four cores really helps. Also, four gigs of RAM is probably the minimum for HD.
Finally, you might try a free download trial of Cineform NeoScene ($99.00 at https://www.videoguys.com if you decide to buy it). What that does is ‘relax’ the H.264 into a .avi format, which is much looser, and much easier to edit.
The reason for the separate hard drives is that the operating system pretty much keeps your C:\ drive read-write head busy. So when you start working with HD files, you need a separate read-write head. And then you store your video files on D:\, and also put the Vegas temp file there. A 7200 RPM spin model is the idea. You can usually pick them up for not very much nowadays. There are lots of options, but they have 1TB Seagate 7200 RPM spin HDD’s on sale now. That is a good model, and pretty much everyone likes it. Other guys like Western Digital. If you plan to do this a lot (or do it for a living) you might want to spring for an enterpreise class drive (although they cost more). And be sure to back up your projects and data!
Please let me know what other questions you have.
Norman Willis
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I’ve seen them do it before, but it is no guarantee they will do it again. I would call sales, to find out.
Norman Willis
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Call Sony and ask them if they will give you a grandfather deal. They did it once on Sound Forge. They might do it again.
Other than that, it depends on whether you do this for a living (upgrade), or if you are a hobbyist (up to you).
Norman Willis
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>>Why would a SanDisk Extreme Pro / 60mbs / 64Gb card be faster than a SanDisk Extreme Pro / 60mbs / 32Gb or 16Gb card?
I dunno, but other people say they are.
FIeld reports, y’know 🙂
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org