[MacDV] Re: imovie storage

[James Asherman]

On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 09:20  PM, Daniel Beck wrote:

>
>> On Dec 30, 2003, at 5:02 PM, Norm Lamoureux wrote:
>>>  I have a PowerMac G4 wdrive. I am already down to under 20 gig. 
>>> What would be the best way to store these projects while still
>>> having easy access? Do I need another hard drive?
>
> Sorry I missed your post and I am responding to a response to your 
> post.
>
> My suggestion would be to consider getting Final Cut. Then you won't 
> need to store all those media files. You would have have your project 
> files and would be able to re-capture whatever media you need off your 
> original tapes. Sure Final Cut costs much, but so do hard disks. And 
> with books by Michael Rubin, it's not nearly as hard to learn as you 
> might think.
>
> Daniel
>
>

too much precious time and tape drive thrashing.
My solution?
  80 gig cuda  boot drive. 40 gigs sitting open.
  80 gig capture drive. Cleaned after every job. also a cuda
80 gig storage drive on second bus under DVD drive for deep storage.
Jim