[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

[Daniel Beck]

Hi Erica,

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:18 AM, Erica Sadun wrote:

>> Well, if you're not having trouble, then don't worry about it. But, I 
>> have, and I have read in books by Michael Rubin,  and Michael Wohl 
>> (and I believe Lisa Brenneis) that capturing to and exporting from 
>> the OS disk/partition is asking for trouble.
>
> Really? Do you have a cite?

Not on me. I'm at work. I can take a look when I get home though.

> Because I've never had any trouble--and as a rule I avoid going over 
> 1394 while capturing. I'd really like to know what they have to
> say. My gut instinct says that internal drives offer the best speed 
> and my reading/experience suggests that a master second internal drive 
> is always the best to write to.

Exactly. I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. As I remember they recommend not 
capturing to the OS disk. Michael Rubin suggests partitioning if a 
second drive is not available. However, I do believe they would 
recommend capturing to a second internal over FireWire if available. 
Maybe my understanding is a bit fuzzy, but I do think they (or at least 
one of them) still suggested FireWire over the OS Disk.

> Perhaps those guys are referring to the issue that you never want to 
> run iMovie in one partition and write to another on the same disk... 
> (Too much overhead on the disk head leading to dropped frames).

Don't know what these guys have written about iMovie. I've only read 
their FCP books.

Daniel
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