Which disk ?

jdas wrote on 5/9/2004, 7:50 PM

Spot mentioned in his book that Vegas and related media should be installed on a disk separate from the OS. So, I have Vegas program, clips,audio,etc installed on another hard disk. Is this correct ? Just want to be sure. Thanks.

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jetdv wrote on 5/9/2004, 8:04 PM

Vegas itself should be installed in the default c:\program files along with the rest of your programs. The video you capture should be saved to a separate hard drive.

jdas wrote on 5/9/2004, 8:37 PM

So, what about my collection of clips, audio and other related stuff ? Can it remain in that separate disk ?

BTW, does it not cause longer seeking time when Vegas is installed on a disk away from source material ?

stepfour wrote on 5/9/2004, 10:43 PM

Sorry, jetdv. No, it should speed things up and extend the life of your drives because the program won't be trying to read and write to the same drive.

I've got three; c:/ for the programs and my collection of audio clips, backgrounds, sound effects and stuff, d:/ for capturing video and e:/ for renders and temp files. No matter what video-editing /dvd-making program I'm using I make sure I set preferences so the workload is spread out amongst the drives. It works very well.

John_Cline wrote on 5/9/2004, 11:10 PM

Also, when rendering, it is always faster to render to a separate physical drive than the one that contains your source material. The reason being that it is fatster to copy data from one physical drive to another rather than copying data to another folder on the same drive. A simple test to prove this is to use Windows Explorer to copy a large file from one drive to another and then copy that same file to another folder on the same drive on which it resides.

John

jetdv wrote on 5/10/2004, 6:35 AM

2Road, I don't understand the "Sorry jetdv" line. It sounds like you go on to say the exact same thing I did in your second paragraph!

wcoxe1 wrote on 5/10/2004, 7:50 AM

I have found that on MY particular set up, that installing VEGAS on the C: drive does NOT work properly. I have to install it on the D: drive or I get drop outs all over the place. Then, I capture on another drive, which in my system happens to be labeled M: It may be labeled something else in your system. In my system, is just had to be something other than C: or D: or I would get all kinds of dropped frames. This happed so badly and so consistently that I experimented a LOT and found that this was the only way that worked. I render back to D: Your milage may vary.

John_Cline wrote on 5/10/2004, 11:57 AM

Now let's make sure that we are talking about separate physical drives, this is not the same as a single drive partitioned into a C and D partition, for example. Yes, the drive letters are different, but the drive itself is the physical same drive.

John

stepfour wrote on 5/10/2004, 2:54 PM

jetdv, I said "sorry" in case it appeared I was jumping in on the exchange between yourself and the thread starter. I should have explained that. My fault.