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Defragging before project
by steveandbelinda on Nov 7, 2007 at 6:50:54 pm

I know that you are supposed to defrag bfore starting a project. But are there any defragger programs that are better than others in way of defragging, and speeding up the drives? What are the ones that you guys use, or do you just use the Windows defragger.
Thanks

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Re: Defragging before project
by Mike Kujbida on Nov 7, 2007 at 7:03:17 pm

I've never defragged and haven't notice any problems from not doing so.
If you really wanted to, you could copy everything from that drive to a backup drive, reformat it and copy everything back again.

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Re: Defragging before project
by Terje A. Bergesen on Nov 8, 2007 at 4:06:24 am

Mike's solution is a little extreme, but... I use diskeeper, works well. I have anything automatic disabled though, only run it manually.

http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp

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Re: Defragging before project
by Anoni Moose on Dec 6, 2007 at 7:18:55 pm

fwiw - the "free" included defragger in windows XP is diskeeper's, just a stripped down simple version (and is obvious by it's user interface).

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Re: Defragging before project
by steveandbelinda on Nov 8, 2007 at 3:49:35 pm

I guess what I meant is, that I heard that you should defrag your hd before rendering.

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Re: Defragging before project
by Terje A. Bergesen on Nov 9, 2007 at 1:19:01 am

You should definitely defrag your HD regularly. I don't defrag before every render, not even close, but I do defrag on a regular basis.

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Re: Defragging before project
by Allen Zagel on Nov 10, 2007 at 1:30:56 pm

I've been using Perfect Disk for years and really like it. I will even defrag the MF and page file offline. It's the best I've found so far.

If I capture a large video, I'll do some work on it but then I usually defrag over night after I've captured. My workflow dictates when I'll defrag but usually it's done sometime before rendering.

With Vegas 5 When trying to render out a project I'd get an error message. Usually I'd stop and defrag everything then and try again and it works.

Allen

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