External Hard Drive - For Video Editing?

[Jenny]

Wow! I’ve had so much great help here! I can’t help, but be curious about all the damage I can do with Video editing - lol!

With saying that, I'll explain my situation.


Would a large External Hard Drive be a good option for someone with the following in mind:

WHAT I PLAN ON DOING
- I host a Weekly Variety Show in a Lounge in my city.
- I plan on making videos for my audience to view. I would like to show these videos through a computer with the aid of a Projector.
- I want to take raw short clips out of my Show and adding minor effects to them (with the Video Editing program I have – let’s say Vegas Video).
- Create short 2 to 15 minute sketches for my audience to view. I would be recording these all over the city and editing them with lots of effects!

HOW WOULD I ACCESS THE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE?
- I was thinking of doing it with the Laptop I own:
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=e...pecstab#tabtop



For what I want to do, would an External Hard Drive (say 160 GB) be a good option?



You guys have actually got me excited about what I can do with Video…even though I don’t understand all the terms – but I’m trying


Jenny

[aanaravs]

Yes, an external harddrive will be fine. I use 3 or 4 external harddrives on my laptop without a problem.