What config is better for long form projects? hard drives at DVinfo.net

Tyson Persall · December 4th, 2007, 11:06 PM

I am working on a corporate video that is about 1 and a half hours long or more. The project folder is nearly 250gigs of DV files, graphics, and music and so on. I have all of this on a 4 disk Raid disk array.
Premiere 2.0 does not perform as good with these long projects as it seems to do with short projects.

I was wondering if my timeline playback might be better, and less demanding on my system if - I instead of the RAID with everything on it - I had the files on separate hard drives. Like a drive for graphics and audio/music and a drive for video and a drive for render files... something like that. Would that be better?

Mike McCarthy · December 5th, 2007, 02:13 AM

It shouldn't be, in most cases raid will offer the best performance for a given number of disks, and be easier to manage. Defraging might help, but Premiere does bog down on long timelines.

Tyson Persall · December 5th, 2007, 09:16 AM

So is it just premiere's fault that it cant handle long form projects and theres nothing computer wise you can do to improve it beyond a certain point?

Mike McCarthy · December 5th, 2007, 03:03 PM

More Ram, faster CPUs. I hear that using XP64 helps, even though Premiere runs in 32bit compatibility mode on that OS.

Ervin Farkas · December 6th, 2007, 07:16 AM

My personal experience: instead of one long project, work with several small projects, in other words break up your project in several 20-30 minutes projects.

December 4th, 2007, 11:06 PM	#1
Tyson Persall Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: North Hollywood, Atlanta Posts: 437	What config is better for long form projects? hard drives I am working on a corporate video that is about 1 and a half hours long or more. The project folder is nearly 250gigs of DV files, graphics, and music and so on. I have all of this on a 4 disk Raid disk array. Premiere 2.0 does not perform as good with these long projects as it seems to do with short projects. I was wondering if my timeline playback might be better, and less demanding on my system if - I instead of the RAID with everything on it - I had the files on separate hard drives. Like a drive for graphics and audio/music and a drive for video and a drive for render files... something like that. Would that be better? __________________ Tyson X

December 5th, 2007, 02:13 AM	#2
Mike McCarthy Major Player Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 517	It shouldn't be, in most cases raid will offer the best performance for a given number of disks, and be easier to manage. Defraging might help, but Premiere does bog down on long timelines. __________________ For more information on these topics, check out my tech website at www.hd4pc.com

December 5th, 2007, 09:16 AM	#3
Tyson Persall Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: North Hollywood, Atlanta Posts: 437	Premiere's Falut So is it just premiere's fault that it cant handle long form projects and theres nothing computer wise you can do to improve it beyond a certain point? __________________ Tyson X

December 5th, 2007, 03:03 PM	#4
Mike McCarthy Major Player Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 517	More Ram, faster CPUs. I hear that using XP64 helps, even though Premiere runs in 32bit compatibility mode on that OS. __________________ For more information on these topics, check out my tech website at www.hd4pc.com

December 6th, 2007, 07:16 AM	#5
Ervin Farkas Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta/USA Posts: 2,515	Break it up My personal experience: instead of one long project, work with several small projects, in other words break up your project in several 20-30 minutes projects. __________________ Ervin Farkas www.AtlantaLegalVideo.com

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