The Digital Director Experience: Video Editing Fundamentals

Would like to know how this would compare for speed to a USB 3 external drive, (only some external drives are 3.0 capable). The box says 10x faster than USB 2.0, which would hardly be sluggish - (although your old laptop would not have USB 3 of course). Although here are some usb3 sata adapters which may be worth a peruse, it says usb2 is backward compatable too - all this could lead to 2 or 3 external drives running on usb3 - very handy...

[url=http://www.usb3.com/]USB3.com - USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Product Site by USBGear.com[/url]

In theory, quicker. in practice, you'll likely not notice any difference. from a practical perspective, the internal solution would be the optimal choice. my laptop has usb3 and esata.

Interested to hear you don't use your DVD drive. I can understand you don't need that medium, but what about family who want to see all those films of National Trust sites and other places you visit, to say nothing of your lvely wife and baby daughter - how do they view? My father would love me to produce copies on VHS (as he's partially sighted and can't read menus on screen)

Everything is online Tim. My parents view the videos on Facebook as I post them. They spend a lot of time abroad, so it's the easiest way.

[I]"The editing elite dictate that laptops shouldn't be used for editing"[/I]
And yet there are a wide range of broadcast level companies out there who sell laptops designed for video editing...These elitist guys need to get their heads out of a studio and do some field work once in a while, Then they will quickly realise just how handy laptops are.

[I]Installing the SSD was much more hassle and can't say I notice any difference.[/I]
Do you not find general Windows tasks are faster? Loading programs quicker? What SSD did you purchase if I may ask? I know there are some which are cheaper than others, but you sacrifice read/write speeds.

@Stripe, It's not so much legendary speeds that you get with USB 3.0 when reading/writing, But the huge performance increase over usb 2.0
With this product
[url=http://www.blackmagic-design.com/uk/products/ultrastudiosdi/]Blackmagic Design: UltraStudio SDI[/url]
I can capture 1080p footage via SDI into my editing system quite happily. This is where I think USB 3.0 truly shines.

The OS boot quickly, but not noticeably quicker. I bought a Samsung 830 128GB.

Marc, thanks for telling me to read this. Helped a good bit! I'm not very techy yet when it comes to computers, but take that as a compliment... Lol! :)

The thing about not using laptops: for me, a laptop would be absolutely necessary to get quicker results with my videos. We drive to our races (varying times of 2 to almost 5 hours) the day before a race. After we race and finish around 5:00 PM we get something to eat and drive home. What do I do otw home? Listen to my ipod, thinking of how to do the video for that race. For me, it'd be better to have the laptop so that otw home I can at least get the files onto the computer, if not go ahead and start editing it. That would give me a HUGE head-start compared to using our home PC... I could get buddies' footage more easily at the track, instead of taking their SD card home with me, or even their whole camera... Lol! (I'd definately have that 'out in the field' kinda thing going, because at our races that's where we are: in the middle of an open field near some woods... Lol!) Not to mention, this computer is not only used for my video editing, but everything else for everyone in the house... I'd love to not have my projects 'interrupted', or interrupt someone's web surfing because I'm rendering a video... Anyway, I'm starting to ramble... hahaha... Thanks again! Peace out!

BJ

Since moving to the Momentus XT for a system drive the performance of my laptop has certainly increased. Am now seriously thinking about losing the DVD drive and fitting a second 7200 HDD in it's place. USB DVD Drives are cheap enough should I need one.

My only thought is this, loading programs from the XT is much quicker and once loaded they do seem to run smoother and perform well, this is no doubt because they are loaded on the ssd and ready to go. However due to the size of video files the XT is probably wasted as a media drive as there's not enough room on the ssd section of the disk to load a projects worth of video files, so the plates are doing the work?

So thinking a fast 7200 1Tb would do the job just as well...

Anyone have any thoughts on this or any experience of the XT as a media drive..?

THANKS Dear Marc.
It helped me.i also juged performance of my PC , andd i hate boot time
in my system. i must be upgrade my PC ,thanks a lot.

Thank And Explain valuable information for increasing speed of PC by using these factor like RAM.