One more question for Billy Boy or another expert

tbwfilms wrote on 1/17/2003, 11:51 PM

How do I tell VV 3.0 that I want to capture my video and make all my edits on the new external firewire drive. Does it ask me when I capture video where I want to put it? Also, do you suggest keeping the Vegas Video program on you main hard drive or can you move it to the external drive as well.

Thanks again in advance
Marc

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Jason_Abbott wrote on 1/17/2003, 11:55 PM

You can set your capture locations under Options/Preferences/Disk Management in the VidCap app. I think you want as little competing activity on your capture drive as possible, so you probably don't want the Vegas app there.

- Jason

tbwfilms wrote on 1/17/2003, 11:56 PM

Thanks Jason!
(sigh) so much to learn ....

HeeHee wrote on 1/18/2003, 2:04 AM

Do a search on this forum for external firewire hard drives. It seams to me that I remember people having problems capturing to them. It may have been dropped frames or something. Anyway, check it out before you do a long capture.

Caruso wrote on 1/19/2003, 4:40 AM

I have invested in external drives that are dedicated to video capture. Some run at 5400 rpm, some at 7200 rpm. I haven't had a bit of trouble with dropped frames. My system is probably less than typical - .9 mhz processor, 128 MB RAM - I do run WinXP pro which, for me, was the final step in achieving totally glitch-free use of VV3.

I've read with interest posts concerning problems writing to and from external drives. Have yet to read convincing solutions that clearly point to the drive as the problem. I'm guessing those problems to be the result of some other factor(s) specific to that users system.

(my 2-cents).

Caruso

Ronbo wrote on 1/20/2003, 2:42 PM

Jason (et al) -

From your post, do I understand that it is better to physically separate the capture-file from the other various VV3 files?

I'd always made it a concerted effort to group all of my files (capture, rendered, audio, .veg, .avi, etc) for one project into one main project-specific folder on my external hard-drive (a WD 120Gig), so they would be easier to find things later. Is that inviting limitations or problems?

R

DataMeister wrote on 1/20/2003, 3:16 PM

From what I can tell the only people who seem to have trouble with dropped frames on an external FireWire drive are drives with the Oxford 911 chip. I don't know if that is just a corelation or the actual cause.

I have a FireWire drive with the Oxford 911 and I can't have it running while capturing or printing to tape even when the data is not using the drive. Kind of sucks actually, but oh well. Currently I just use it for archiving projects or backup.

I don't know if the Oxford chip constantly parses the FireWire interface to get maximum speed or what the deal is, but something it does ties up the whole FireWire network for a split second every once in a while, causing dropped frames when capturing or stuttering audio if I'm outputing to tape. Who knows.

JBJones

fdooman wrote on 1/20/2003, 10:19 PM

It is good to capture on a stand alone drive and have Vegas Video on your
main hard drive (c)

tbwfilms wrote on 1/21/2003, 6:50 PM

Thanks for your help. I captured a thirty minute clip to my new external firewire and it seemed to work just fine. Is it the consesus however, that you should leave the VV 3.0 on your main drive?

jthor wrote on 1/21/2003, 8:52 PM

What I have noted folks saying in the past, is to have VV3 and the video files etc on a different drive than windows and all your other programs. Then if windows or whatever accesses that drive, it will not interrupt whatever your are doing with VV3. They also suggest you not have other things running when you do a render. You theoretically can goof up 5 hours of processing, although I had my virus scanner popup (I forgot) and it caused no problem. I have used my USB 2 external drive only to copy files to as backup. My internal second drive is where I do all the work, but them files sure stack up fast and large. Welcome to file management concepts 101.