Hi everyone, I am new to the forum but figured you good people could help a newbie out. This summer I plan to work on a short experimental film of sorts, and while I have most of the aesthetics worked out I am a bit stuck in a few places.
I plan to use avid media composer for the editing. The problem is I am limited to my Dell laptop to work with. My hard drive run at 5400rpm opposed to the required 7200rpm and my graphics cards will also need to be replaced. My main question here is if I buy an external 7200rpm hard drive, will that work to run avid smoothly? I know that external connections slow the hard drive down, but has anyone else found this to work? Replacing the graphics card shouldn't be much of a problem but I am worried about the hard drive issue. I also was wondering if an editing program of that caliber will even function on a laptop, considering that in the business people are often times working on more powerful desktop computers. I will be using avid for the first time this summer, purchasing the student edition.
My other question deals with audio recording. My film will not consist of a lot of spoken dialogue, so I don't really need a mic, however I hope to go out into the field and record some natural sounds which I will use as effects. Not foley sounds per se but just natural sounding audio to enhance certain points of the film. For example I wish to record a natural train whistle. What audio recorder would you suggest that falls around $100 or lower. I have a pretty tight budget so I am trying to save wherever I can.
Thanks in advance!
Gage
I plan to use avid media composer for the editing. The problem is I am limited to my Dell laptop to work with. My hard drive run at 5400rpm opposed to the required 7200rpm and my graphics cards will also need to be replaced. My main question here is if I buy an external 7200rpm hard drive, will that work to run avid smoothly? I know that external connections slow the hard drive down, but has anyone else found this to work? Replacing the graphics card shouldn't be much of a problem but I am worried about the hard drive issue. I also was wondering if an editing program of that caliber will even function on a laptop, considering that in the business people are often times working on more powerful desktop computers. I will be using avid for the first time this summer, purchasing the student edition.
My other question deals with audio recording. My film will not consist of a lot of spoken dialogue, so I don't really need a mic, however I hope to go out into the field and record some natural sounds which I will use as effects. Not foley sounds per se but just natural sounding audio to enhance certain points of the film. For example I wish to record a natural train whistle. What audio recorder would you suggest that falls around $100 or lower. I have a pretty tight budget so I am trying to save wherever I can.
Thanks in advance!
Gage