Hard Drive advice

[cameraguy]

I got an external hard drive for DV editing of my Super 8 stuff. Now I am right in thinking that I should make several partitions. One bigger partition for capture/editing and another for outputting. My thinking is that once edited the first partition is somewhat fragmented but if i move the finished project onto an empty partition it will lay it out in nice order for dropout free ouptut back to tape.

[MovieStuff]

Instead of partitioning, just get the full version of Norton Speed Disk. That's what we use and I always defrag before playing out to tape and it works every time. The free lite version won't do the job nor will Disk Keeper. The full version of Norton will defrag both the files and free spaces. Norton will keep things in order and your program should play perfectly from beginning to end.

Also, I've found it's a good idea to reboot after a through defragging session so that all computer resources go back to normal. Some programs, like Adobe Premier or Photoshop, are memory hogs and won't leave the watering hole unless you reboot. My Pinnacle Real Time board won't even reset properly after I use Photoshop unless I reboot to free up the available memory.

Anyway, my two cents....

Roger

[stevefromNewcastle]

I would suggest getting a full copy of TMPGne, and output your file as a SVCD, this is almost as good as DVD, and is higher quality then SVHS, you can fit 35mins of footage on a CD, but check your DVD player will play it, but till I get a DVD writer this is the easiest and best quality output to disk
Steve

[tubmyk]

I don't mean to bring up old news, but I feel that it's imparitive to my current project.

While reading your post about outputting to DV, I was wondering if you've ever tried to burn a VCD of your project and had good results? I am working on something that I have been putting back on DV and really wanted to have it on a CD for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, even when I use TMPGne it still ends up looking better on VHS because it's in real time, and I hate the sight of pixils, even the smallest hint of them. If there is no good way to get a VCD looking very close to DVD using your output Premiere project, than is there a place you know of that will make these transfers from DV to DVD? That would be pretty ideal.

Any help would make my day