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David_Kuznicki wrote on 4/2/2004, 6:50 AM
I was about to ask a similar question-- is anyone using firewire 800 w/ Vegas?

I like the idea of a Lacie & firewire 800 vs. SATA Raid 0 for uncompressed video (at least, in theory!).

So, is anyone using it yet?

David.
AZEdit wrote on 4/2/2004, 7:14 AM
I use a Firewire 800, but not on a laptop...see the thread:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=255493

Works fine for Video capture... no problems

Also have a SATA drive and a ATA 133 Raid 0 ..never had problems with any of these
riredale wrote on 4/2/2004, 8:36 AM
Your timing is perfect: this article just appeared on the Tom's Hardware site.
David_Kuznicki wrote on 4/2/2004, 10:51 AM
Very interesting article...

So, then that makes me wonder (and it's going to be a LONG two weeks until we get an answer, I know!), will Vegas 5 support network rendering via a small, firewire-only network?

It's at times like these that I HATE those damn NDA's!!!!

David.
ScottW wrote on 4/2/2004, 2:46 PM
It just so happens, my macally phr100acb firewire 800/usb 2.0 drive enclosure just arrived today. Installed my 180GB ATA 100 drive, hooked it up to my editing pc via the firewire connection, formatted the disk and moved a 4gb clip over to it. Then disconnected it from the editing pc and re-connected it to my laptop via my PCMCIA firewire card. It took a few incantations to get windoze XP to finally see the drive, but eventually it did (nothing unique about the drive, I've always had problems getting Windoze to see things on the firewire card - usually a couple of removal/insert sequences will get it working though).

launched Vegas. Pulled the clip onto the timeline. Seems to work fine. Haven't done anything serious with it, but tried some scrubbing, even at the highest speed, things were moving right along with no aparent problems.

Looks like I've now got a way to bring my work home with me.

--Scott