[MacDV] Toast/copying DVD-R

[James Asherman]

On Friday, January 7, 2005, at 10:50  AM, Karl Seilo wrote:

> I'm using half of my main internal drive which I've partioned as my 
> boot drive.  The drive has a capacity of 45.67 G and I'm only using 
> 15.03 G which leaves me 31.54 G to spare.  I edit my video material 
> onto a second 100 G internal drive and also use an external 160 G 
> Maxtor HD for video editing.  Should the 2nd drive and the external HD 
> need the defrag process?
>
>

Only if you Keep things there between jobs.
If you do an hour capture and an edit and you decide that you are going 
to save some clips or audio or the finished video in some form then you 
might want to occasionally do them.
When a drive is full this process takes hours. But to straighten out 
and prepare an empty disc takes seconds.
I think you have undersized your boot disc. Regardless I would capture 
to the second drive,
and use the external for deep storage, and the internal extra partition 
for current extras that you might keep like photos or music or graphics.
Jim