[SeSawaya]

Hey,
I am going to be doing a project with about 360 mins of footage to use and edit. + transitions and files. I need a external HD to use with a iMac to work from.

What size would you get? Obviously bigger the better but what shuold be my minimum?

Any brands you like?

thanks!!!

[SeSawaya]

b u m p

[jamil5454]

What quality of video is it going to be?

[SeSawaya]

well, DV quality if thats what you mean. I will end up with almost 3hours of video when its all edited and done.

[k_munic]

1h dv = ~12 Gb

so, 6h about 70 - 80 Gb - just for the import of the raw footage; for working with the files, saving the final project, maybe storage some stills, 3D animations, photoshop processed files…-

ahh, you know what I mean

[dlefebvre]

For video use, you should get at least 160Gb. You always end up eventually with more than one project. 200Gb is a decent size in my opinion.

[SeSawaya]

thanks guys, I was hoping 160 would be enough. Now I'll look at some 200 or 250s.

any particular brands to stay away from???

[SpaceMonkey]

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
thanks guys, I was hoping 160 would be enough. Now I'll look at some 200 or 250s.

any particular brands to stay away from???

I dunno about brands to stay away from, but as far as I know, Seagate still has the longest warranty of any hard drive manufacturer (5 years). I've never used them personally, but most speak very highly of them in terms of build quality and relative silence.

[barang]

I got a OWC Mercury 120 GB. It fine for my needs. I get over 5 hours of DV on it periodically. It's pretty cheap right now.

Now that I have a Powermac instead of the iMac that I used to have, my next drive'll be internal.