Digital video processing on external firewire drives ?

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I want to capture and edit on one computer and then spool off to another
computer the MPEG encoding (takes forever with TMPGE).

Would it be feasible to use external drives with firewire interface to
transfer jobs between computers ?

The plan would be to edit in Premiere on one computer (with job on external
firewire drive), then plug that drive onto a different computer to render to
final AVI and to encode to MPEG (via TMPGE).

I'm wondering if the data rates of a firewire drive or something else might
make this a bad idea ? I wouldn't necessarily capture to a firewire drive.

It would be nice to spool off a big job for post processing/rendering and
free up my main computer for the next project.

Thanks for any comments !!!

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Mike Kujbida wrote:
> DelawareDave wrote:
>
>>I want to capture and edit on one computer and then spool off to
>>another computer the MPEG encoding (takes forever with TMPGE).
>>
>>Would it be feasible to use external drives with firewire interface to
>>transfer jobs between computers ?
>>
>>The plan would be to edit in Premiere on one computer (with job on
>>external firewire drive), then plug that drive onto a different
>>computer to render to final AVI and to encode to MPEG (via TMPGE).
>>
>>I'm wondering if the data rates of a firewire drive or something else
>>might make this a bad idea ? I wouldn't necessarily capture to a
>>firewire drive.
>>
>>It would be nice to spool off a big job for post processing/rendering
>>and free up my main computer for the next project.
>>
>>Thanks for any comments !!!
>
>
>
> Absolutely yes. Lots of folks do it all the time, me included. I have
> several external firewire/USB drives (for backups) at work hooked up to
> various NLEs. If I need to work on a project at home, I just bring the
> drive home with me, load it onto my system, edit, back to the drive and back
> to the office.
>
> Mike
>
I agree with Mike. I even connect the firewire drive to my laptop and
the camera to the drive. So it has to handle twice the amount of data
when I copy from the camera to the drive. Yet I have no dropped frames.

Andre

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"DelawareDave" <davejunkmail123@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I want to capture and edit on one computer and then spool off to another
> computer the MPEG encoding (takes forever with TMPGE).
>
> Would it be feasible to use external drives with firewire interface to
> transfer jobs between computers ?
>
> The plan would be to edit in Premiere on one computer (with job on
external
> firewire drive), then plug that drive onto a different computer to render
to
> final AVI and to encode to MPEG (via TMPGE).
>
> I'm wondering if the data rates of a firewire drive or something else
might
> make this a bad idea ? I wouldn't necessarily capture to a firewire
drive.
>
> It would be nice to spool off a big job for post processing/rendering and
> free up my main computer for the next project.
>
> Thanks for any comments !!!
>
>

You could use a regular removable drawer (caddy) and operate at full ATA or
SATA speed