On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 07:48:13 GMT, Robert Phares wrote:
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>The bottom line is finding a solution for reliable playback. Given the
>3.5MB/s
>needed, you'll need some overhead. There are infact dips in performance
>across the
>drive platters. I'll playback a project from the timeline and if it's a
>fairly large
>one, say 20 minutes or so and I get a failure and the transmission stops
>then I'll
>run a performance test on the drive partition it's on and see if would
>appear to
>be where the lowest dip is and it usually is. I seem to run into
>problems where
>it falls below about 5MB/s. So with that in mind I find not all that
>many drives
>available that will work 100% of the time.

Ah-hah! So here is the reason for your reservations about UDMA drives
for mini-DV editing...!!!;-) I just accept the fact that I cannot
play back video off the timeline (even with my SCSI drives...). I save
the pieces of my edited video as a set of AVI files, to be played back
(when finished) as a seamless sequence using Spark ver.2 software...
For this, UDMA drives work fine (and they are big and cheap...;-).