Thanks Godfrey - just what I wanted to read. In an ideal world, I would have the best fastest machine possible with a whole line of drives whizz-banging away.
For guerrilla shooting and editing, I'm afraid it's what fits in one bag over the shoulder. That's a MBP 15" 2.4 Ghz with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB 7200 HD, and one separate 250 GB 7200 HD in A FireWire (400) enclosure: <http://www.macally.com/EN/product/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=100> The MBP is just over 2 years old and will be looking to replace it when it's 3. It's without doubt the best Mac I've ever had. The above combo handles SD video really well, and if I set up in a hotel room with it for longer than a few hours the I connect up another external drive and a Yamaha control surface/hardware mixer as well. I'm trying to persuade a major client to give me more work to enable me to put a VSAT dish on my Land Rover roof (£15k) so I can send material remotely via satellite, including streaming live H.264 video via hardware encoder (Matrox MX02 LE) back to the studio. Waiting to hear on that one. The words 'build', 'day' and 'Rome' spring to mind.... Thanks On 31/1/10, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >If the notion of doing this is to reduce fragmentation and enhance >performance, then the 'erase, drag and drop' methodology would be >better as that will write each file, one at a time, as a contiguous >entity. IIRC, SuperDuper makes volume clones, which preserve the exact >block structure of the clone source volume, preserving whatever >fragmentation might exist. . > >Another excellent utility, ChronoSync by Econ Technologies, is what I >use for this sort of thing rather than the Finder, however. ChronoSync >works as a synchronizer primarily but is also very good at volume to >volume file duplication because you can turn on enhanced verification, >have it create a log of its operation, and if you need to interrupt it >in the middle of the task, when you restart it will pick up where it >left off and save a lot of time. > >However, for video editing you should have your scratch disk >completely independent of the video editing source AND destination >disks. All connected with eSATA or FireWire800 ... That promotes >better performance and minimizes fragmentation. > >yes, video editing eats disk space ... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
