Adding New Hard Drive Just For VV3

DavidW12 wrote on 1/23/2002, 4:01 PM

I've bought another 7200rpm drive just for VV3's benefit (that's how much I LOVE Vegas Video 3!!!). Do I need to re-install VV3 on the new drive, or just move all of my media files over to it?

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dino2002 wrote on 1/23/2002, 4:51 PM

I'd be interested to hear how you go - I'm thinking of doing the same to get over printing to tape problems - hmmmm and when you get the second drive what's the best configuration for VV3 to work on? - Sorry to piggy back on your post David.

Steve

tboydva wrote on 1/23/2002, 5:01 PM

These links would be useful for both of your questions. The tutorials tell you how to devide the OS and media for VV or any NLE.

http://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/select_forum.cgi?forum=sonicfoundry_vegas

http://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/select_forum.cgi?forum=sonicfoundry_vegas

http://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/select_forum.cgi?forum=sonicfoundry_vegas

Tom

Jessariah67 wrote on 1/23/2002, 9:53 PM

If it's anything like audio, you want to have your OS and programs on one drive and your media files (audio/video) on a separate drive. That way, your "dedicated" drive's resources are being used solely to find and play your media.

I just got into NLE, and my 7200rpm ata66 holds up just fine.

RichR wrote on 1/23/2002, 11:47 PM

Use the drive for your media files. Keep your program files where they are.

DavidW12 wrote on 1/24/2002, 12:20 PM

Thank you for the links!

tserface wrote on 1/24/2002, 6:44 PM

You're also going to want to hook the drive on it's own controller if possible. For example, you can hook your regular (OS) drive and the CD to once connector and your stand alone drive to another. Better yet, pay $39 and get a separate PCI ATA100 card and hook the drive to that. You can also store media anywhere, you will simply want to capture and render to the new drive (anything that is going to be "save" sensitive). When you are printing to tape you should have all media files on the separate drive so that the OS doesn't grab drive time when it's writing to the registry, swap files, or anything else it seems to do all the time.

Tom

DavidW12 wrote on 1/25/2002, 10:16 AM

Well, I just finished adding the drive. I decided to replace the main system drive with the new drive, and then use the system drive as the media storage drive.

I "ghosted" the original system drive image over to the new drive. Swapped the drives, made the new drive master, old drive slave. Booted fine. But for some reason, all of my Sonic Foundry programs have to be re-installed. All other applications still work fine, but Sound Forge, Vegas 3, BatchConverter, NoiseReduction, all refused to work.

I've not played with Vegas 3 since the drive fiasco, but I suspect that it won't be much of an improvement as I put both drives on the same IDE channel, moving the CDRW and DVD-ROM to the same IDe channel. I know, not a great way to do it, but both hard drives are set to run ATA100.