Disk Space Issues

As you will soon see, working with video files is quite different from say, Microsoft Word documents. As video files (and accompanying audio files) are huge, it is crucial to have an organized and economical workflow. Consider that one hour of imported video footage will result in a file in excess of 15 Gigabytes! And if you are working with video from two cameras in a project, that's 30 Gigabytes! And that's just the video, audio files are handled separately take up a great deal of space as well. If you find that you have multiple versions or folders of unused video footage laying around, you may quickly run out of disk space.

Reading these large files is very labor intensive for your PC. Hence it is recommended that video files be stored on a separate hard drive from your video editing software - in our case, Adobe Premiere Pro. In the LITS video lab, you will notice that Premiere Pro is located on the C:\ drive and video files are imported to the D:\ drive. No doubt in the future additional storage drives will be added. Many professional video services separate media even further by having audio files reside on yet another drive.