Originally posted at Project Pedal:

I have three external hard drives: an old 20 GB that's full of my music, an 80 GB that has a bunch of different image & graphic files stored on it, and a 200 GB that's holding a good 160 GB of raw DV footage. Mostly from Amanda and I's bike trip along the Pacific last summer... but also video I took for & during the pilot.

Two days ago, I took the subway (because we were spending $600 to fix the brakes on the car) into Pasadena to meet with Matt, Tim (DP) and Aaron - we went over the footage from the June 5th - 9th shoot, and I brought home Tim's 300 GB drive to look, more closely, at the video. But I've been franticly shifting my 200 drive to DVD's to make room for the pilot clips. All this on-top of editing.


I need to just give in and buy myself a 300 GB external - I know even after I empty the 200 I already have, that by the time I dump the pilot footage on it and start cutting - the render files will eat every last bit of space in no time. Which is frustrating because Final Cut 5 has dynamic editing & playback - which means you don't have to render to work - unless you have a mac mini and are working with HD footage... then dynamic playback is just choppy-as-hell.

Which is half the reason I want a 300 so badly, I could fit everything on it, including the project files and just sneak it with me into iFilm when I'm working late, I'd be able to get my editing done about 15 times faster. But... we are $600 in the hole for the brakes, so I'll keep holding my breath.