Well, I've been enjoying my new MBP, and I really want to do a lot of video editing, and I plan to do a lot of video recording in Fraps.
Fraps records uncompressed at 1440x900@25FPS, which comes out to a little under 100 Mbps (12.5 MBps), I notice that both USB 2.0 and Firewire go over these speeds, but can they sustain these for long times? And will this put any high load on windows or the actual hardware? Upgrading my HD is out of the question since 500 GBs is barely enough for 10 hours of video, of course it's much smaller when compressed (even losslessly).
Secondly, is it acceptable to do video editing on an external HD or should I actually transfer the files over to my local hard drive and edit there?
P.S. I've been looking at these drives with direct SATA connections (through the expresscard), but I don't know if it's worth using, here's the components I found for SATA...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839200006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817362002
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136131
Also, there are some (USB though) drives available such as...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136025
I plan on formatting in NTFS and using an OSX driver to acces NTFS, the 4 GB limit on FAT32 would limit me to 5 minutes and 20 seconds of video, too big of a loss.
Fraps records uncompressed at 1440x900@25FPS, which comes out to a little under 100 Mbps (12.5 MBps), I notice that both USB 2.0 and Firewire go over these speeds, but can they sustain these for long times? And will this put any high load on windows or the actual hardware? Upgrading my HD is out of the question since 500 GBs is barely enough for 10 hours of video, of course it's much smaller when compressed (even losslessly).
Secondly, is it acceptable to do video editing on an external HD or should I actually transfer the files over to my local hard drive and edit there?
P.S. I've been looking at these drives with direct SATA connections (through the expresscard), but I don't know if it's worth using, here's the components I found for SATA...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839200006
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817362002
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136131
Also, there are some (USB though) drives available such as...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136025
I plan on formatting in NTFS and using an OSX driver to acces NTFS, the 4 GB limit on FAT32 would limit me to 5 minutes and 20 seconds of video, too big of a loss.