Ingesting video

[videomojo]

Questions:

I've ingested video from my deck into Vegas. The video went to my C drive, and into "my documents". I have an external 500GB hard drive, and a second hard drive in my computer.

1) Should I use this external drive for all my video? Or my second internal hard drive?

2) When I lose my trial version of Vegas in a couple weeks, will I lose all the clips I've ingested?

this Vegas newcomer says thanks for the help....

[TJIsACoolGuy]

You will not lose the clips you have captured after the trial version expires. Although I highly recommend purchasing the software because it is a must have!

[MisterCat]

Ideally you would dedicate a drive to handling only your video. This drive of course would not be your operating drive. You didn't say if you had other files on the other drives, but at today's prices is definitely worth having one for only this purpose.

Steven

[videomojo]

got nothing on my second hard drive, it's 500GB...and my external is 500GB...use the internal first?

[donkathon]

A note- if you are buying on the internet, dont buy the "serial codes". They are illegal, most often, and sometimes do not work.

[MisterCat]

I use external drives so that I can carry projects between machines at work and at home. Just don't use the same drive that has Windows, your operating drive. It'll work that way, but using separate drives for operating and for video is much better. I don't think you'll see enough difference in performance between internal and external to worry about, it's just a convenience thing for me.

[videomojo]

thanks catman...I've got a 500GB external that should hold some video, but I really don't need to take it anywhere...yet. Do all my work here. I'll have to now figure out how to move the clips from drive C to D. I think when D starts to fill up, then I'll move to the external drive. Good ideas?

[MisterCat]

A good plan indeed!