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That is true, but this will probably not have any significant impact on Vegas performance since it will generally be CPU intensive more than memory intensive.
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Go 32bit for now. There is no real advantage to running a 32bit app on a 64 bit system.
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I like it. The music is mostly very “electronic”, if you like that, you’ll like Cinescore. It is also quite limited in terms of matching music exactly to changes in your video, you really can’t. In this I mean that using the standard Cinescore tool, you can not create music that has beats exactly on scene changes for example, you do not have control to that level.
I work around this by finding what I want, cutting it about how I want it, and to the length I want, then I use Cinescore to create the music, perhaps add some things here and there, and then I try to match the video to the music by fine-tuning my edits.
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Oh, btw, this probably means that you have to backup your drives, remove them from the RAID configuration, create the new RAID configuration and then restore the data. Lots of work in other words. I don’t think there is any way around that.
You may be able to do this by copying everything from the secondary RAID to the primary, untangle the secondary raid, copy from the primary to one of the two new drives you will have, untangle the primary RAID, re-install windows… you get my point.
It will be a hazzle.
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With 4 drives, it depends on how much data you have. I would use one of two configurations, depending.
Config 1:
- HD1 for OS and applications. Including all data such as documents etc (non-video).
- HD2 for video etc that you use in your productions. Stock footage etc. Things that you do not create, but that you purchase or download. Things that do not change, but are part of your productions. Stuff on this drive should be easy to re-install in case of failure, so you don’t really have to back up this disk.
- HD3 and HD4 as RAID0 for captured footage. Store the .veg files etc on HD1.
Config 2:
HD1 for apps and data, including .veg files, stock footage etc. All of that. HD2-4 as RAID0 for video.—
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After Effects is also good. I’d stay away from Cool3D considering Ulead has stopped developing these types of apps, so Cool3D is currently an orphan an it shows. The same goes for Media Studio Pro and DVD Workshop.
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If you want to use your PC for video editing, RAID 1 is not really an option, so you really should find a way to solve that. You don’t need it, and quite frankly, it is probably not going to significantly improve your uptime as much as it slows down your computer.
I store all the data that I create under a single directory. C:\Data. You’d probably chose something else. All my images go there. All my .veg files go there etc. Everything that I do not need to back up, such as loops for Cinescore etc, sound effects, masks I’ve bought etc goes somewhere else. If my HD crashes, I can get this back easily by reinstalling it.
All my captures etc go on my RAID.
Doing a backup basically means copying anything from C:\Data onto a DVD or two. I use dual layer DVDs now, and they take all of that stuff except pictures I take, I have a different backup procedure for those.
As soon as Blu-ray drives come down in price I’ll buy one of those for backup. 25-50G is the sweet-spot for me currently for backups, and I don’t want to mess around with tape backups.
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As Ron says, rendering is CPU intensive, not disk intensive. There is no reason to render from one drive to another. Any drive, RAID or not will be able to keep up with the process.
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Control drag the audio to match the length of your video.
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RAID 1 is a bad idea for video editing, it’s performance is abysmal in most situations. You either need to drop in another drive for your video editing or convert away from RAID 0.
You say you use RAID 1 because you lost data due to a computer crash some time back. I am not sure what you accomplish with that, I wouldn’t recommend it at all. RAID is not a substitute for good backup solutions, it is a way to get back up and running fast when something goes wrong. The safety features of RAID is primarily useful for business servers that need to have excellent uptime. A company that uses RAID 1 or RAID 5 will also always take regular full backup of their data and ship it out of the house (hopefully).
I am not sure if you realize this, but your RAID 1 solution has not really made your data that much safer. Sure, it is a little safer from a hard drive crash, but that is the only thing. HD crashes is one important reason people lose data, but not that important. What if a virus wipes your drive? RAID 1 will not help. What if your computer is flooded, RAID 1 will probably not be that helpful since both drives are likely to go at the same time. Fire.
My recommendation to you is to reconfigure your system not to use RAID 1, it gives you a false sense of security and probably prevents you from doing what you really should be doing to safeguard your important data, which is to take regular backups and move them out of your house. You can probably use your DVD burner for this even.
Now, as for Windows Media Player not playing your DVD, that is not a big surprise. WMP hardly ever plays any of the DVDs I throw at it. Try with the DVD software that came with your computer.
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