Should Video & Audio be on different drives?

Sidecar wrote on 8/16/2007, 10:00 PM

I already know that the Vegas application should be on the C: drive and the captured video and audio should be on a Data drive.

Is it even better to have the .veg file on a second drive, the video on a third drive and the audio on a fourth drive? Or at least the video and audio on separate drives?

Reason I ask is that I have a 720-30p multi-window project with 43 tracks (three video and 40 audio). Audio or video are not playing on all of the tracks at the same time, but there are definitely 12 or more active audio tracks and two active video windows at any given time.

The veg file and all the audio and all the video are in a single folder on a single 750GB SATAII (300 Gbps) drive, but it's throttled back by the older motherboard controller to 150 Gbps.

Seems to me that's a lot for the drive head to be accessing at the same time.

Thanks.

Comments

TorS wrote on 8/16/2007, 10:34 PM

If you have enough RAM there should be no problem. If not, you will have problems no matter how many drives you spread your stuff across.
Tor

ritsmer wrote on 8/17/2007, 3:39 AM

Hi Sidecar

Maybe this thread can help you:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=539566&Replies=24

vicmilt wrote on 8/17/2007, 3:43 AM

I would never split my audio from my video - you are doubling the chance of error, if you accidently erase something or a drive goes down.

If you are having problems, do a premix on your audio.
Tools>Render to a New Track>Save project as path reference in rendered media
By doing this you immediately lessen the load on your computer and have instant access to your audio track for revision.
How?
By right-clicking the premixed track - Vegas will automatically open your original sound track. When you change the mix you can re-render the new track. Audio renders so quickly that this is a real viable way to deal with many tracks.
If you need picture to lay out your original mix, use a low res copy of the video for reference.

BTW - you really should be able to work with many audio tracks w/o any problems. And if you DON'T have a problem - don't wast time fixing it.
v

Sidecar2 wrote on 8/17/2007, 8:02 AM

Thanks for the comments. My 2.8gH P4 Intellistation M Pro has only 1.5GB of RAM.

No real problems yet except yesterday I got a mysterious message pop up saying something about running out of buffer and that I should immediately Save As a new project with a different name and restart Vegas.

That got me a bit worried. I'm not even half way though the 16 minute edit and it looks like something somewhere is running out of gas....

Sidecar2 wrote on 8/17/2007, 8:55 AM

I just got the "Save As Immediately and restart Vegas" warning again.

It specifically says there is an unknown problem with the 'undo buffer."

After restarting, all's good again.

farss wrote on 8/17/2007, 3:50 PM

Getting all you audio at the same sample rate as the project can help no end.

Bob.