Well I love video editing and have a laptop. The thing is my laptop doesn't have anywhere close to the amount of space I want to store my raw video. So, if I were to get a external hard drive, would I be able to upload my video to that and use it for editing on my laptop? or would it be too slow (don't they connect via USB?).
they do connect via usb and they aren't that slow. I have an external hard drive running vmware....a utility that allows you to have speperate operating systems on one pc.....and it runs through usb and i find it faster than my normal drive. i haven't done a lot of video editing and such, but vmware takes a lot of processing power to run, and i can't see it being that much different power wise than a video editor.
If you're doing video editing you'll really need a USB2.0 or Firewire. I'd go Firewire myself just since thats what you'll use to hook a DVCam up anyway. Hope you have lots of RAM too.
Make sure the external drive has a decent RPM rating too.... Anything under 7200 for video editing is useless.....anything under 7200 for anything is useless....stupid Compaq laptops
