Now the next thing I want to show you is the scratch disks. Scratch disks as learned in the last lesson, in the previous part of the training is the location in which you can dictate where all your files get captured when you are ingesting or capturing video into Premiere or where the synthetic or Premiere created project files are going when you are either conforming audio or building preview files. So the biggest thing with capture, no matter what format you are capturing in is that you want to have a drive that sustains the data rate of the footage you are capturing.
Now HD footage has a massive data rate. It's almost 10 times faster than MiniDV. Now if that's the case you are going to make sure that you have a hard drive that supports writing 30 megabytes a second to the disk. For MiniDV you have only about 3.3 megabytes per second that are being written and most drives are going to support that. I am just going to reiterate something I said in the last lesson which is when you are using MiniDV, you are going to want to make sure that the RPM of your drive is at least 7200. 5400 RPM drives are going to give you trouble. So if you are trying to work with Premiere on your laptop and if you find that you are dropping frames while you are capturing. The odds are probably that drive doesn't support writing information that fast to the drive.
So if that was the case, you might want to look at using a separate machine for capturing or maybe you can get a separate drive that's faster for that system. Most PCs now that ship, most of the ones that we buy to use for digital video editing come up with 7200 RPM drives. So what I would recommend that you do now is you specify a folder on your drive and label is capture. Now what you have is one specific location where all the captured files are going. The default way that Premiere captures video is to capture the video the same location as the project. So if your project is saved to the Desktop or even your My Documents folder on your root drive, the odds are sometimes in favor of the fact that the person who has manufactured your PC has used a cheaper drive for that root drive and it might be 5400 RPMs.
So with any video system I always recommend having secondary video drives. Usually, we can label them V and call them video and that's where we put all our video files that we are accessing, A standard IDE internal drive that has a 7200 RPM on it is going to be fine for all DV editing and playback. So right now I would recommend you can either specify a new capture location or you can go ahead and save this project to a different location and choose to keep the captured files with that project. The only advantage of capturing your video files to the location of the project is such that if needed to move that project, it's pretty easy to just grab that folder and not have to worry about any extraneous material.
There is additionally a project manager for Premiere Pro that helps you do the same thing even if your captured files are spread across your system. So go ahead and just specify what disk you want to use. I again suggest using a secondary drive and set that for both captured video and captured audio. To target the area, just click the Browse button and target a folder or create a new folder in whichever path you choose.
