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jetdv wrote on 5/16/2004, 10:40 AM
I haven't seen any problems doing this. I've rendered many projects to my firewire drive.
BPB wrote on 5/16/2004, 11:13 AM
thanks jetdv...
I'll give it a whirl.
bb
Caruso wrote on 5/17/2004, 3:44 AM
V5 (or for that matter, V4) and probably most other apps seem to treat rendering as a data only process - no dependence whatsoever on speed or consistency of data transfer. . . so, your drive might be slow as molasses or quick as lightning. If you notice any difference at all, it may be in rendering time.

Areas where you need to take care are in capturing (drive must be up to task in terms of ability to capture video stream in real time) and in print-to-tape (same situation as capturing).

I installed a 160 GB drive internally on my secondary controller. Something is set up wrong, so that I don't get max speed from the drive. I still render huge files to it happily. When ready to print, I either remove the drive and install it into an external firewire enclosure (where it performs up to its specs), or I make space on an existing external drive into which I copy the desired file and print to tape from there.

It an't pretty, but it does work.

My point is that Vegas isn't at all fussy in terms of drive performance when rendering. If you like, you can cruise the net while rendering, or perform some other test (like opening a second instance of V5 and working on another project).

Works well.

Good luck. Hope this reply helps some.

Caruso
newbie123 wrote on 5/17/2004, 5:48 AM
wow, a post i actually have knowledge about and can add too whoo hooo.

with that out of the way.

i have an exteranal enclusure that i have been using as my capture drive as well as the firewire input and have had absotlutely no problems. ie the dv cam is attached to the back of the firewire drive and the firewire drive is attached to the back of the computer. i run the dv cam and capture the video stream to the external drive. the drive i am using is a 200 gig wd 7200 with 8meg of cache. the system is relatively new but not bleeding edge.

i doubt you will have any problems.
vicmilt wrote on 5/18/2004, 4:17 AM
I do ALL of my work on outboard Firewire drives (basic 7200 8 meg cache drives).
I dedicate a drive to a job and keep the drives as archives.
I capture, render and print to tape all from these outboard drives. I never let them get more than 80% full and I use Raxco Perfect Disk to defrag them on a (very) regular basis.
Many of my jobs are 15 or more tracks deep. Most are short (under 10 minutes), but I've also done hour long projects this way.
I am using Wiebetech.com outboard connectors which I plug and unplug from a Firewire hub, connected to the computer.
I add drives when necessary to the Firewire chain.
Never had any problems.