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VIDEO EDITING, HARD DRIVE
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: usa
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Hello, I have a G4 computer with Imovie 2 & would like to use them for editing wedding videos that I make. I would
like to get a 60 or 80 GB drive (or larger depending on price).
What kind of hard drive would be best to do this with?
Internal or external?
Is an ULTRA ATA drive fast enough?
Is a Fire Wire drive fast enough?
or must I get a SCSI drive?
I'd like to get a fire wire (way less expensive and portable), but don't know if it's fast enough.
Grateful for your answers!
Peace.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: New York, NY USA
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get a firewire. they are extremely quick and can transfer up to 50mps depending on circumstances. Firewire harddrives are not that expensive actually and can be kept pretty small. Lacie makes some good ones amd VST makes some really small ones that go up to your range but are expensive as hell.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally posted by mantis:
Hello, I have a G4 computer with Imovie 2 & would like to use them for editing wedding videos that I make. I would
like to get a 60 or 80 GB drive (or larger depending on price).
What kind of hard drive would be best to do this with?
Internal or external?
Is an ULTRA ATA drive fast enough?
Is a Fire Wire drive fast enough?
or must I get a SCSI drive?
I'd like to get a fire wire (way less expensive and portable), but don't know if it's fast enough.
Grateful for your answers!
Peace.
Get an internal 60 or 75 gig IBM 75GXP Deskstar drive.
ATA/100 (internal IDE).
They rock.
SCSI is overkill... you're using iMovie so I assume you're not doing anything really serious.
A FireWire drive is just an IDE drive with a FireWire bridge attached - its not worth the extra cost.
Cipher13
[This message has been edited by Cipher13 (edited 03-12-2001).]
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Wetsponge
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any hard drive is really "fast" enough. I use my ATA/33 on my B&W G3 to do some hard core video editing with premerie and it zooms along.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Decatur, GA
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While you can capture and edit video stored on a FireWire drive perfectly, you will not be able to playback high-quality, full-screen video smoothly.
If you only need to store the video while you work on it, go FireWire. If you'll need to playback the video in order to proof your work at maximum quality, go with an internal drive.
Good luck.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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The IBM Deskstar is definitely the way to go. In the G4, there should be a bay available for a second ATA drive with a connection ready. There are more bays, but you'd need to buy a controller card to add more in those. The controller in the G4 is an ATA66 so it should max out the IBM's speed at about 34MB/s.
Note that FW hard drives aren't this fast. 50MB/s is the theoretical limit, but the drives are limited by the internal ATA to FW bridge chip. No FW hard drive sustains more than 12 or 13MB/s. At MacWorld January, the company that makes the bridge chips announced an ATA100 to FW bridge that will make the drives really fast. None are shipping yet that I know about.
Until that happens, go internal. If you can wait for the new drives, go external. It will be more expensive, but the portability can be a nice feature.
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