Yes the files are going to be much larger, and no I wouldn't change that or worry about changing that. If you want, post your system specs and we can give you a bit of advice.īut to answer your original question. Sorry, I feel like I'm rambling on at this point. (always go internal when possible, nothing worse than having bass rattle your cable loose and your show stops because you don't have any clips connected haha)
If you have a decent GPU and need space, maybe see if you can upgrade internal storage first and compare the price of that to an external option. If you're running an Intel Iris GPU, I would upgrade your machine spec's (specifically the GPU) before worrying about storage.
I would write down all you machine specs and see what you need to upgrade first if the file space is going ot be an issue. There's a lot of debate about using external USB3 SSD's, but that is an option as well (much cheaper than a m.2 SSD because there are more built, thus the manufacturing price drops) What level are you at in your VJ game? Can you afford a $3,000 laptop with specs that will take you to the moon and back, or are you just getting into it and need to focus on upgrading your build or getting quality VJ clips? It's all about balancing your budget for your reward. A 1TB m.2 SSD is much much more expensive than a 5,400 RPM 1TB 2.5" HDD. PCIe based even more so (m.2)īut again, with every thing in life there's a trade off. I'm not sure what your system specs are, but SSD's are always recommended. I literally have 4-6GB files all over my comp. You have to give up system resources when decoding the file in exchange for a larger file size that doesn't need decoding. With the performance comes a larger file size. Like everything in life, there is always a trade off. The DXV codec is a uncompressed format that releaves much strain from that entire process and allows for a much smoother playback and ease of use when adding 12 FX and scaling it up and down 100 times per second.
When you take that same footage and try to use it in a professional setting it really bog's down your system because the system has to decompress the file which takes a lot of system resources.Īnd now you want to add FX and modify the same footage in real time, which puts even mooooore strain on your system because it has to do this on top of decompressing a file.
This is great for when streaming online to a 7" cellphone. The reason mp4's suck is becuase they are compressed all to hell.