I saw the comment about getting 2 ssd's - would one be for the OS+programs and the other for footage? Would there be much benefit to splitting footage up onto 2 drives? It seems like it might not be worth splitting up footage if the program+os were still running on my old hdd. I chose that drive to link to b/c it had the least reviews saying that it failed after a few days/weeks. My motherboard supports the 6GB/s version of SATA (3.0) so should I be looking at something like this come black Friday?

I'm glad to have the support of some forum-users before making a $300 guess based on intuition. This option has been on my mind as something that may solve long rendering times & rendering failures for heavily color-corrected/effects laden footage. I recently updated my graphics drivers to no avail, but since I currently have the footage on a usb3.0 drive, let's hope an SSD (or 2) might be the trick. External eSATA drives will use the hardware disk controllers same as internal drives.

Internal drives use the bus mastered hardware SATA disk controllers. BTW USB drives won't help much because USB disc controllers are software processes.

* Your need is faster access to source video and pre-rendered files so put the SSD or RAID as an additional drive, not as the OS drive. You would be much better off capturing to a digital intermediate like Cineform Neoscene to reduce decode load on the CPU. If you add more disks, spread source video to minimize disc seeks. If adding a second drive (HDD or SSD*), put video and 'Prerendered files folder' (tmp) on this drive to separate video access from Windows activity. On top of that you are trying to decode 5 AVCHD streams to RGB in real time.įirst add additional internal drives. 5 video source + temp files +Windows activity all on one drive. Looking forward to replies! You are doing all this off one internal drive? It doesn't sound like Vegas is crashing, it is choking probably from disk thrash. Do i need a ssd for vegas to handle multi-cam avchd? I have an i7 8gb ram 500gb internal hdd (mostly empty) two 3tb external usb 2.0 and usb3.0 drives for footage, Asus Nvidia GeForce GT240 with 1gb ram, windows experience 5.9 for the primary hdd, but 6.6 for graphics and 7.6 for ram and processing power. not that it would be clear anyway in low light) and it all went into a vegas timeline and multicam track just fine, but now that I am editing I have to save every 30 seconds because vegas crashes (screen goes white-ish, window pops up after 10 sec saying 'vegas pro has stopped working') i can restart the program by clicking the file i saved, but once this starts it doesn't ever stop. I shot video of my band with 5 camcorders at 17mb/s (high, but not full res. So i just want to know if i am the only one having issues - or if if it common for vegas to crash while playing back multiple avchd streams.

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