Newbie MM2 filmmaker needs guidance

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Thank you in advance for sharing.

I want to edit a 60 - 75 minute documentary on MM2 (v 5.1). I have
approximately 40 hrs of footage on mini DV tape I need to draw from.
Editing with MM2 on a Sony Vaio desktop,1.5 Ghz Intel pentium 4, C/D
Partition approx. C=15gb D=96gb. 512mb RAM. Windows XP. I have had two
external drives fail on me. Acom 120 g. and a Maxtor 300g. My questions are:

1. Is 300gb enough? (Can you recommend a reliable brand.)
( when the Maxtor failed the support tech didn't give a hoot about my
footage, I was so upset.)

2. How would your recommend backing up an external drive. (dvds? another
drive?)

thanks again, I have used this forum when I was learning MM (I love it).
Always found helpful info.
 
Your mini-DV tapes are backups for the files on the drives... don't record
over them.

40 hrs of footage at 13 GB per hour is 520 GB of hard drive space if you
want it all on hard drives... then you need about 15 GB for the final movie
saved to DV-AVI, and some elbow room. So 550 to 600 GB of free space would
work.

From what I read Maxtor is as reliable as others, but I use Western
Digital...
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that would be my suggestion too. Just because you have 40 hrs of footage,
you don't have to capture it all. Be a little selective about what you
capture (since you are going to edit it down to around an hour anyway.)
you might want also want to investigate other "compressed" formats for your
archive purposes once you are done with your footage. (divx, mpg2, mp4,
etc....)

| Thank you PapaJohn........wow I need alot. will cut some of the
"necessary
| footage" down.
 
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