making video files from External Hard Drive

[giladvalkor]

I didn't know what section to post this question in so I decided to post it here. Okay...So I have not started capturing my video yet....I just orded my new VCR which should be in within a week, I'm just asking this question early getting prepared for it.

I always capture my video straight to the internal HD. Well after I capture my video I always like to transfer it to my External Hard Drive. I don't like to clutter my internal HD up with stuff. So I am just wondering that if I edit a video with cut scenes and music like I want it and then make a video file from that video from the external HD...would it be of less quality making the video file with the source video coming from my External HD.....hope that made sense...I tried to word it correctly.

giladvalkor

peace and safe journey!

[SingSing]

There are no quality different in video if your files are on internal on external hard disks.

[edDV]

I didn't know what section to post this question in so I decided to post it here. Okay...So I have not started capturing my video yet....I just orded my new VCR which should be in within a week, I'm just asking this question early getting prepared for it.

I always capture my video straight to the internal HD. Well after I capture my video I always like to transfer it to my External Hard Drive. I don't like to clutter my internal HD up with stuff. So I am just wondering that if I edit a video with cut scenes and music like I want it and then make a video file from that video from the external HD...would it be of less quality making the video file with the source video coming from my External HD.....hope that made sense...I tried to word it correctly.

giladvalkor

peace and safe journey!

That should work fine. What software are you using?

If you are using something like Premiere or Vegas and try to scrub audio and video on the timeline to the edit point, you will find the external drive much less responsive vs. internal. At 1x or less speed there is no difference during editing, filtering, effects rendering or encoding. Video quality is the same regardless.

I agree with you that the internal drive should be used for capture.