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Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2002, 7:59 AM
Yes it does, as long as the file is truly DV compliant. I've seen some reports that using DV files from Video Wave have problems with this. I've also had to "help" VideoFactory detect the unchanged sections somtimes by adding splits just before and after transitions and effects.
Sarasdad wrote on 4/17/2002, 8:07 AM
Thank you. I captured 30 min wedding just to see if I could without stopping ,win.98 limitations, then made edits titles came time to output back to camera but found out not enough hard drive .Any suggestion on what to besides new computor.
Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2002, 8:14 AM
Hard drives are cheap. I've seen 80GB 7200RPM ATA/100 drives selling for around $160. This is enough space for over 5.5 hours of DV.
Sarasdad wrote on 4/17/2002, 8:17 AM
Will this be xtra hd or will it replace the one that I have now
Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2002, 8:34 AM
It can be either. If you have the room inside your computer for another hard drive, i highly recommend adding this as a second drive and keeping the one you have now. This makes installation very fast and nearly painless.

Some things to watch out for:

- Right now your CD drive probably shares the same IDE port as the hard drive. You'll have to determine if the motherboard has additional IDE connectors (post your computer's make and model number here and we can look it up for you).

- For speed and performance reasons, it would be better to have the second hard drive be on a separate IDE connector from the first hard drive.

- The second drive will become drive D:, pushing your CD drive to E:. This shouldn't be a problem once you get used to the change. However, if you have any old video games from the early days of CD drives, they probably won't run anymore until you reinstall them from the new drive letter.
Sarasdad wrote on 4/17/2002, 8:41 AM
Compaq 5838. The only change I made is added 128 ram It now has 256 which I really can't tell difference.
Sarasdad wrote on 4/17/2002, 9:22 AM
Complete specs:
Compaq presario 5838 windows 98 second edition
A.M.D. K-7
256 RAm
Chienworks wrote on 4/17/2002, 11:30 AM
Well, as usual, Compaq was less than wonderfully helpful. The tech specs for your model look like it includes both a CD-ROM drive and a CD-RW drive. Is this true? Or is it an option that you choose one or the other when you buy that system? If it includes both, then you definately have another IDE port. Even if you do have only the one CD drive, it looks like that system is a midsized tower rather than a mini model. I would say it is very unlikely that it has only one IDE port.

http://athome.compaq.com/showroom/classic/select.asp

Enter your Compaq model number if you want to see the spec sheet for your model.
Sarasdad wrote on 4/17/2002, 12:00 PM
yes it has both cd and cd-rw drives. model number 5838
HeeHee wrote on 4/17/2002, 3:55 PM
Kelly wrote "- For speed and performance reasons, it would be better to have the second hard drive be on a separate IDE connector from the first hard drive."

Not always true. This depends on the what type ATA drives you have. If you have only Hard drives and no other IDE devices what he said is true, but... when you add CD-ROMs or other ATA-33 devices into the mix, the opposite happens. Most new drives are ATA-100 or ATA-66. If you pair these up with an ATA-33 device like a CD-ROM, you will decrease the performance of the hard drive. Best to keep like ATA devices on the same channel unless they are alone in the system.

Hope I didn't confuse you. Here's a simple chart for your scenario. Most likely you have an ATA-66 UltraDMA hard drive.

Pimary IDE Controller
Master - Original Hard drive (C:)
Slave - New Hard Drive (D:) (Press F8 on boot and select run in Safe mode command prompt, run FDISK, select yes to ues FAT32, switch to second drive, create primary partition, reboot and let it boot into OS, open My Computer, right click on the D: drive and select format)

Secondary IDE Controller
This should be left as is.
Master - CD-ROM will switch from D: to E:
Slave - CD-ROM will switch from E: to F:
Stiffler wrote on 4/18/2002, 12:13 AM
I have a Compaq 5wv280, and I just added an 80GB HD ($150). Open up your case and look below your floppy drive. Your HD is below that. Hopefully you will see an empty tray below that. You could fish around a bit for the extra (flat) cable too. I'm sure you do have an extra tray, since we have similar computers.

Good luck, Jon
Grazie wrote on 4/18/2002, 2:40 AM
Sarasdad
I've got a Dell Inspiron Laptop. I've purchased a MAXTOR firewire PCMCIA card that adds a further two firewire portals to my 32 gb hd machine. I also purchased a MAXtor 60GB EXTERNAL HD running at 7200 rpm (this is imporatant to get achieve the necessary mb/sec needed for dv stuff. This now lets my processor and laptop hd to relax a bit and my editing/capture is now done on the external drive.

As the price for thses extenal hd's is coming down rapidly, I can see myself purchasing an additional 80gb external MAXTOR drive and daisey chaining it to the firewire.

I realise you have a box pc, but maybe you might consider my route somehow. The installation was a straightforward - truly plug n play - affair, with no need to alter switches etc etc.

Happy editing

Grazie
Sarasdad wrote on 4/18/2002, 5:59 AM
Thanks to everyone !