I am a recreational/hobbyist videographer (Interviewing Local Historians, video family events and other sundry local activities). I am about to build a video editing machine and need to develop a plan to organize all my editing assets.
I have two questions: One a version of a question that I have seen dozens of times and one that I cannot find any answers to at all (Perhaps I am just not looking in the right place)
First, the endless hard drive question:
I intend to work on a project or two at a time, generally with 10-20 GB of video, then archive the project on a multi-TB NAS. For my editing machine, would the following hard drive setup be sufficient and would any of them benefit from an additional drive set up as a RAID0?
Boot Drive/Software Drive -480GB SSD
Projects Drive - 120GB SSD
Pagefile, Media Cache - 120GB SSD
Previews, Exports - 120GB SSD
This brings me to my second question:
What is the best method for handling media files?
I want to be able to do rough cuts on my laptop, then move the project to the workstation for final editing, effects and final rendering. Then once I am through with the project, archive all the assets to the NAS. Also, if I have digital juice music and sound FX stored on the NAS, do I copy them to the project folder then import them, or leave them on the NAS? Then when I move the project to the editing workstation, do I just point the project back to the NAS?
Does know of a tutorial that can assist me figure this out? I have been ending up with bits and pieces of projects everywhere and there has GOT to be a better way.
Regards,
