I got a video editing program for Christmas. The issue is that the captured video files eat up a ton of hard drive space. Is getting an external hard drive to store my video captures a good solution?
2007-01-05 04:51:04 · 8 answers · asked by recruiter74 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I just love how these people answer questions to stuff they probalby have no experience with.....
An external hard disk will resolve your disk space problem but it will create an additioanl problem. The access time to the external hard disk is slower than from your internal hard disk. When you are editing video you may get some lag of skipping.
You have to edit straight from an internal hard disk.
You can use an External Hard disk to store the files, just not to edit them.
The better option would be to get a second internal disk drive. You would not have any problems with lag when editing.
2007-01-05 05:13:38 · answer #1 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You always want to edit footage on a different drive than your operating drive. The computer can lag while trying to find instructions on an operating drive causing dropped frames and other issues when outputting video. If you have a secondary hard drive internal on your computer you can use that, or use an external 7200 rpm firewire 400 drive. (I don't recomend the LaCie Porsche model.) Tony Noon *General information: Video information changes daily. This is my opinion as of 12/26/07
2016-03-29 09:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can I use an external hard drive for video edition
2015-07-06 02:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by Allan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, STORAGE of videos should be fine external. USB2 or Firewire800 are commonly available fast drive. I saw the Seagate 500GB external drive for $179 the other day at Fry's, lots of them at $215 on ebay.
One important strategy is to EDIT your project using your local IDE attached drives for speed reasons, an dthen when the project/editting is complete, MOVE the files over to longer-term external storage like the Seagate.
2007-01-05 05:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by TheAnswerMan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the winzip 8.0 ,it zip's and compresses the file from original; size to a smaller one it will be very usefull to store all the files.
2007-01-05 05:03:55 · answer #5 · answered by rajesh 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shawn H said it all. Too many people try to use only logic and not full understanding nor experience.
2007-01-06 15:27:10 · answer #6 · answered by DSM Handyman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES! Be sure to get a firewire interface, that way the data transfer will not be so slow!
2007-01-05 05:03:10 · answer #7 · answered by bigringtravis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HD's are pretty cheap now days. You should be good to go.
2007-01-05 05:01:32 · answer #8 · answered by mazterg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋