Re: Speed of hard drive up against HD footage

The drive will handle the load just fine. After Effects is not a playback environment, you're not editing, you just creating and then rendering files.
If you need to view your HD content real time, you will need RAID or proprietary cards. Your professor needs to be VERY specific about the formats he expects you all to be using. The school should be providing the resources required to do the editing. Demanding you provide your own multi-disk, multi-thousand dollar RAID is unconscionable.

720p is not very demanding but the issue is that USB is not designed for continuous data streaming. USB ships in packets and allows long waits for other traffic or CPU activity. That makes video playback choppy and unreliable.

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