gsellis
Diamond Member
I wanted to relate an example of why many of the video editors on this site will tell you to get more/larger hard drives for the box you are building for video editing.
I just cleaned up my Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps project last night. I saved 40GB of files so I can recreate significant parts of it (the entire SD DV file (AVI) was 20GB and audio was 1GB). I had over 12 mini-DV and D8 tapes of material. The project with renders and media used 204GB of space! This is standard definition (SD) NTSC digital video. That does not include keeping a copy of the DVD (that's in the 40GB).
So, if you have 5 vacation videoes you want to convert at 1 hr each... One 1 hour tape roughly equals 13GB. Add special effects, color correct, other wiz-bang stuff for another 1-2GB. The temp working area for creating a DVD would be about 4-8GB (depends on the app). The DVD iso file, if you keep it, is 4GB. 13+2+6+4 = 25GB x 5 (videoes) = 125GB. If you keep copies on your HD of the ISO... And remember that full drives will tend to perform less efficiently due to last data on fragmentation...
Moral, get the big drive or drives. 250GB drives don't seem so expensive once you start having to shuffle 20-40GB to the other drive to make space to finish a product. I use 2 200GB drives setup as RAID0 to give me a 400GB. I don't care if R0 does or does not really increase performance. I want the big volume and I use big allocation units as I never seem to have small files (reasoning for smaller block sizes is less slack space in many cases.)
I just cleaned up my Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps project last night. I saved 40GB of files so I can recreate significant parts of it (the entire SD DV file (AVI) was 20GB and audio was 1GB). I had over 12 mini-DV and D8 tapes of material. The project with renders and media used 204GB of space! This is standard definition (SD) NTSC digital video. That does not include keeping a copy of the DVD (that's in the 40GB).
So, if you have 5 vacation videoes you want to convert at 1 hr each... One 1 hour tape roughly equals 13GB. Add special effects, color correct, other wiz-bang stuff for another 1-2GB. The temp working area for creating a DVD would be about 4-8GB (depends on the app). The DVD iso file, if you keep it, is 4GB. 13+2+6+4 = 25GB x 5 (videoes) = 125GB. If you keep copies on your HD of the ISO... And remember that full drives will tend to perform less efficiently due to last data on fragmentation...
Moral, get the big drive or drives. 250GB drives don't seem so expensive once you start having to shuffle 20-40GB to the other drive to make space to finish a product. I use 2 200GB drives setup as RAID0 to give me a 400GB. I don't care if R0 does or does not really increase performance. I want the big volume and I use big allocation units as I never seem to have small files (reasoning for smaller block sizes is less slack space in many cases.)
