"even a five minute animation will use a huge amount of hard disk room."

That's true, but if you do animation, you should always want the raw output at the highest possible quality (which will obviously take up lots of hard drive space), because you're going to want to bring it into post processing at the best resolution you can to avoid "second generation" deterioration of the video quality (artifacting).

If you're just doing video that's strictly for the web, I guess it doesn't matter as much. But if you have any plans on doing video for broadcast, film, DVD, or even CD, then the raw output should be done to a format that is not "lossy".

I recommend getting an Acom external harddrive. You can get up to 100 gigs of extra storage for saving video, etc. They're really great. :-) Message edited on: 12/29/2004 09:40

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