[MacDV] How much HD space do I need?

[Neil Poese]

Yup, you've got to get an external FW drive. 250 gigs is a good start since storage is so cheap now. You'll find a lot of discussion on the various brands of drives, and after having owned dozens of drives that I've used in school video labs, right now I'm happiest with the new drives that Promax carries. They've been around since the beginning of DV and generally carry the best stuff. I always prefer a drive with a fan to one without. Your Mac does have enough RAM, doesn't it?

Neil

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Des Cotes <mark at astroprinting.com>
>Sent: Nov 8, 2006 9:18 AM
>To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh." <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: [MacDV] How much HD space do I need?
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>After all your help and all my research into producing vertical  
>movies in iMovie, my boss decided to go the extra step and gave me  
>the go ahead to purchase Final Cut Express HD.
>
>Now, I'm going to be producing 2 - 3 minute long commercials. For now  
>they will be composed of still photos a la Ken Burns Effect with  
>titles flying around over the images. Down the road I'll probable  
>incorporate video as well. How much HD space should I have available  
>for this? I have about 25GB free before I install FCE. I also have an  
>external 80GB USB1 drive but I find it slow. I'm thinking I should  
>maybe get a good size Firewire drive. But I have no idea what to look  
>for. Suggestions?
>
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