Useful tools for editors. Part 9.
By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Useful tools for editors |
The data transfer rate of your hard drives is a very important thing when editing video. The higher the format (DV > SD > HD) you want to edit the faster drives that you need. DV Guru linked to a Studio Daily video of a short presentation where Final Cut Pro expert Larry Jordan does a simple and succinct job of explaining Firewire vs. SATA as well as transfer rates and all that kind of stuff.
After watching the video head over to Versiontracker and download freeware MBBench. It’s a little application that measures and displays a graph showing the data rate of the selected hard drives. It is easy to use and the only complaint I have is that it lists your drives by their cryptic “technical” name and not as they appear on the desktop so it might take a minute to figure out which drive is which, especially if you have many drives connected. There doesn’t seem to be much support information available but it is freeware. If anyone has any other drive speed utilities please post a link in the comments below as I’d love to check out others. So grab MBBench and weep as your Firewire 800 drives operate slooooly!
