2nd Hard drive

[Guest]

I am new to video editing.As my hard drive is only 40GB of which 12GB is
left,I have installed an external drive,a Liteon 80GB 851SX,for video editing
and digital photography.As Movie maker is on my C drive how do I use my
external drive for movie maker? (or is this a stupid question from a
geriatric beginner to computing?)
I would appreciate any help.

 

[Jerry]

The location of the program has nothing to do with its operation because
when you invoke the program it runs in RAM, not the hard drive.

But, saving movies you created is a possible use of the external drive.

 

[Rehan]

Go to menu item in Movie Maker: Tools->Options->General and specify the
"Temporary storage" location to point to a folder on your new drive.

After that when you capture a movie it wont use disk space on your old
drive.

 

[Guest]

No problem at all - in fact I have two additional disks that I use for video
(D: and E, with MM itself being on C:
When you capture video, the wizard asks you where you want it to go. Click
on Browse and navigate to the drive/folder that you want to use. Like any
workfiles it is entirely up to you how you organise things but for example I
have created three folders on each of my video disks as follows: Captured
Video, MM Projects, Saved Movies. Then, whatever I am doing, whether I am
capturing, creating and saving a project, or saving a finished movie, I go
to the appropriate location.
Hope this helps
CW

 

[John Kelly]

Hi CW,

That description sounds familiar

I've moved forward slightly...I now use hard drive caddy systems so that I can
take my work with me by pulling the hard drive and plugging into one of the
other machines...XP lends itself nicely to this by allowing you to force a
drive to have a given drive letter (or path)...this way no matter which machine
I am on, the path to my "Captured" and "Rendered" locations is always the
same....

I tried using the drive as a "folder" from a fixed hard drive...but my other
video software did not like that. The problem now is justifying larger cases so
that I can install second caddy drives so as to split up the "Captured" and
"Rendered" paths...Question, how would YOU say to "She who must be obeyed at
all times", "I want bigger cases so I can buy more Caddy's to hold the new hard
drives I also want to buy!" Which word ending in OFF do you think I will get
)