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I guess if you’re only playing around in the industry it’s only a game. Those who use these products for a living have a job to do, and simply buy the most suitable tool available at that time. An upgrade has to be inspiring, not simply available.

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Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

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And after all, who cares. The only people pre-release affects is those with $100 notes hanging out of their wallet with nothing better to do. We all know, or should know, that version one of any hardware/software is at best a pain in the neck and most times catastrophic. Remember all those pleas for “where’s the update?”
I guess I’ve been in this industry too long.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

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I’ve got two independent SATA 120Gb drives running off SATA 1 & SATA 2. One with the O/S XP (Basic format) and the other for conformed/tempory files. Another 2 x 250Gb SATA Raid for video files and 4 x 200GB SATA drives (independent) running off a PCI SATA card for archives. No PATA IDE drives at all.
The system runs like the wind. Got 4Gb DDR400 Dual RAM but there wasn’t much change after 2Gb with Premiere Pro. This is the best setup I’ve found (keeping tempory files away from video files away from system files)

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

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Canopus Procoder is very good at this conversion. Excellent quality.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia

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Blast1,
You wouldn’t have an O/S on a dynamic drive anyway. The O/S will only operate on a Basic drive.
Why bother partitioning and adding FAT32? Keep everything NTFS and avoid complications.

Redgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia