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    Video Editing Best Practices Part II: How to Use Pro-Grade Video Editing Software Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Dustin Sklavos, Aug 26, 2010.

  1. Dustin Sklavos

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    I await the third part as I am editing a feature length film on Premiere at the moment and would like to see what solutions you provide to allow for rendering time to be cut down by such a large scale.

    Good stuff so far.
     
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    I'll shoot myself on the third part to help you out. :)

    If you're editing on the laptop in your sig, you'll want to use one hard disk as the source drive and then render your output to another one, which for you will mean an eSATA drive most likely. Hard disks (and their interfaces) are some of the slowest parts of a computer, so running all of the data back and forth through a single drive is liable to leave some processor resources idle.
     
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    Hmmm, good tip. Right now my laptop is the 'editing' workstation, the one for putting all the elements together, the good thing is a real workstation is rendering out the sequences I am creating, however, we have learnt a lot after post production on this film. Before, my setup was the program files were on my hard drive on the laptop and then the source and render files on an esata hard drive. But what you are saying is to plug in another hard drive, say a USB one, and have the renders done on that?
     
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    You can also just render out to the laptop's drive and then copy files back over to the eSATA drive when you're done. The key is really just to not source from and render to the same drive.

    If USB is all you have, that's fine, but remember that USB introduces its own bottleneck.
     
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    The laptop comes with a USB 3.0 port so I'll use that too my advantage.

    Will also let my assistants know about this. Thanks a lot. Expect to see a trailer online very soon. :)
     
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