Best Way To Configure Vegas for Multiple Drives

VLL wrote on 11/7/2003, 6:25 PM

I'm sure this has been covered in past posts, but I'm having trouble finding one. I have a moderately fast 1 year-old PC with two 120 GB drives, each with two partitians. Right now, I have the Vegas software installed on my C drive, which is my bootable partitian, and where most of my program software is loaded. I have been using my second hard drive (or at least the larger of the two partitians on it) to store all of the raw material that I put into Vegas (sound, music, video clips, pics, etc). When I render, I use a temp directory on my H drive, and I also render to the H drive.

Does my set up make sense, and is it the most efficient one for rendering times? I got the impression somewhere along the line that I should run the program software off of one drive, and render to a second one. I'm doing that, but does it make sense to render to the same drive that holds all the digital video/audio files that are being used to construct the rendered file?

Thanks.

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DGrob wrote on 11/7/2003, 7:33 PM

The only problem I've encountered is when I've daisy-chained my 120GB and 200Gb Maxtor drives off of a singlie Belkin 2-port PCMCIA card adaptor. This forum has suggested that the raw data flow required of a 32 pin plug-in card is overwhelmed when I might try to Print-to-Tape in off E drive and back out the second Belkin port. I copy my E drive render back to C, and PTT back out to the camcorder thru the second port as a second operation. Rendering between the daisy-chained externals (i.e., in from E and back out to F, has not been a problem).

My new Dell M60 is set up with a 200GB video drive via USB2 and a 7200 rpm, 60GB C drive. i'm hoping to firewire in my camcorder and do all else via the external USB2. Gonna be outputting rendered *.avi files to camcorder for DV archiving and DVDs via internal burner and Sony DVDA. Not sure about daisy-chaining USB2s yet. Will see. Don't see the point of partitioning your externals. Keep it simple. DGrob

Grazie wrote on 11/10/2003, 2:32 AM

I ditto Grobbies point of "needing" to partition externals. I've been use 4 mixed size f/w drives - all Maxtors. This through a Maxtor PCMCIA card . . No problems here. Keep it simple and you will not go far wrong. PLUS, what with the major drop in external f/w drives prices, connecting a new 160gb f/w drive is very cost effective. BB has his views on external f/w drives . . . to date mine have "Held-The-Line".

Keep it simple . . . add a new f/w when you need or can afford it.

. . my 2 pennies worth

Oh yes Grobbsie, like to hear how you are gonna do the USB2 chaining - if that's the correct technical word?

Regards,

Grazie