On Thu, 05 Nov 1998 20:28:58 GMT, montanai@hotmail.com (BladE) wrote:

>Hi David..
>Thanks for your reply ..it was a great help, really appreciated!
>I guess I have no choice but to get another HD; it doesnt seem like
>exporting using DVsoft Print to Video (timeline to my optura) is going
>to work. :(
>You mentioned to get big UDMA drives..but I was wondering if that is
>going to be fast enough? ..cuz I was told i have to use UWSCSI, like
>the one i have Cheetah 9.1g, but its too expensive for them.
>Or are you suggesting I use the fast UWSCSI drive to capture and
>Export/Playback avi files to my Optura... but use the UDMA drive to
>work with Premiere/VideoActionNT while editing? ..is this right, or
>maybe you know a better way?
>again...thanks for all your help.

You're welcome!
One advantage of mini-DV/FireWire-transfer over
analogue-source/computer-compression video is that
the data stream is moderate and constant, and
easily handled by recent IDE drives (UDMA-type,
though that feature does not need to be enabled),
since only the minimum sustained data transfer rate
is of interest for capture/playback of mini-DV (and
the lack of HD thermal-recalibration hitches...),
and the transfer rate is high enough with these
drives. Neat, since for not much money one can buy
a couple of 14-16 gig drives of this type.