Hi. I have 2 hard disk and i want to make the other hd into a dedicated "master" for video editing purposes...how can do this? and is it possible to choose which hard disk you need to use during boot up?

Advanced Video editors help!

-- nathan summers (zombini@libertysurf.se), February 22, 2001

Answers

Hi Nathan, I'm not an advanced video editor but I think all you'll need to do is associate your capture&editing software with the drive letter of your extra dedicated HD.

-- Mark (ChinpokomonSan@aol.com), February 23, 2001.

The HDD you intend to be your capture drive should be: at least 10 to 20GB, 7200rpm (5400rpm drives will NOT do), and should be using some high-speed transfer mode that should also be supported by your hardware (UltraSCSI, UltraDMA33/66, UltraATA100, etc., which should guarantee a data transfer rate much better than 10MB/s), and should NOT contain any system files, preview files, etc, EXCEPT the captured *.avi files. Any NLE will want a separate drive for the preview files ideally, although this can be also the capture drive. Before the next capture/editing session, though, the capture drive should be wiped clean or defragmented if otherwise. The system and program files reside in another HDD, which can have less critical specs than the capture drive.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), February 24, 2001.