Storing video for processing

VideoEditor54321

Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline

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Dec 26, 2010 22:23

I opened my first video editor 36 hours ago and have already processed my first video. Though it was only 3 1/2 minutes long, it took many hours to complete; mostly because of the learning curve. But I have one more issue that really slows me down. PD9 defaults all saved files to the C drive. My C drive is a standard 7200 rpm SATA II drive. I installed PD9 there but I also installed a 10,000 rpm hard drive to store all my video files on.
I do understand that I should keep software on the C Drive but place video on the second and faster hard drive. What I'm not properly grasping is this: Do I save just the raw, un-edited files on the secondary drive and let the works-in-progress files reside on the C drive. I think not. I think all video should reside on the secondary drive so editing data and video data don't cros paths. I guess my real question is: How do I get PD9 which resides on the C Drive to access and default to saved works on the secondary drive?
Thanks again everybody. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
Phenom II 6 Core 1075T 3.0GHz processor - Black . ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 graphics card . 12GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz . 300GB 10,000 rpm SATA Hard Drive . 12X Pioneer BluRay Burner . 16X DVD+/-RW . Windows 7 64bit .

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Dec 26, 2010 22:29

Alt c will bring up the preferences dialog, go to File and then you can set the Import and Export folders.

Jeff

pjc3

Senior Member Location: Australia Joined: May 29, 2010 19:33 Messages: 247 Offline

Dec 26, 2010 22:30

Quote: I guess my real question is: How do I get PD9 which resides on the C Drive to access and default to saved works on the secondary drive?
Thanks again everybody.

Pretty easy.

In Open Powerdirector:

File>Preferences

Preferences Dialogue box opens.

Click on "file" tab (6th down on left)

Default locations can then be changed to where you like.

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VideoEditor54321

Member Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Joined: Dec 25, 2010 12:19 Messages: 61 Offline

Dec 26, 2010 22:52

Done. I beleive I made the correct choices. Dell Studio XPS 7100 Minitower:
Phenom II 6 Core 1075T 3.0GHz processor - Black . ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 graphics card . 12GB DDR3 SDRAM,1333MHz . 300GB 10,000 rpm SATA Hard Drive . 12X Pioneer BluRay Burner . 16X DVD+/-RW . Windows 7 64bit .