External Hard-drive Questions.

[Fabulousamelie]

Hello there,

I'm looking to purchase an external hard-drive so as to provide enough space to edit a feature film using Adobe Premiere 7.0. I'd be very grateful if anyone would relay assistance given the following queries…

* My current hard-drive has about 3GB space left. I'm wondering whether you need a certain amount of space on your original hard-drive so as to install and house an external hard-drive. If so, how much space would you require approximately?

* A friend's advised me to buy a FireWire-enabled hard-drive because a hard-drive with a USB-only connection would be likely to mess up and corrupt data if transferring files more than say 4GB from external hard-drive to main hard-drive and vice versa. Is this indeed the case?

* My hard-drive tower has only one FireWire port, so I'm trying to fathom how I'd go about capturing footage into Adobe Premiere (requiring a FireWire connection to a digital video camera) and saving that footage in a project stored on the external hard-drive (also requiring a FireWire connection). Any advice?

* This is the latest drive I'm pondering whether or not to purchase...

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(17695)...-Firewire.aspx

Please tell me what you think of it considering my outlined editing objective. Microdirect's the only UK-based site I'm aware of for external drives. Can you recommend any other stores/sites to visit?

Thanks

 

[Fabulousamelie]

Hello again. I went for the 500GB drive and successfully reformatted it to NTFS this morning. However, I'm having trouble as far as the daisy-chaining's concerned.

I've created an Adobe Projects folder on the new drive and a new Test project in Adobe Premiere to store in that folder. When I hook up the camera to the other FW port at the back of the new drive so as to start capturing footage, it has trouble finding this capturing device and sometimes flashes up "Serious error" messages.

This dilemma only applies to the new Test project on the new drive. Previous projects (stored in a separate folder on my original hard-drive) still recognise the capturing device and let me capture footage.

Is there something else I need to do to prepare the new drive for storing Adobe projects or working well with Adobe or something? Any assistance would be much appreciated :>)

 

[Fabulousamelie]

Update to previous post -

I've tried it a few times now. Sometimes it crashes. Other times, it activates the camera as the capturing device only to crash again once I press "record" to capture some footage.

Also, a window's popped up a few times reading "There may be a fault with your hardware or network connection. Try saving the file elsewhere".