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Considerations for Managing Storage
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Managing Storage to Improve Playback Performance
The way you set up the media drives and target them when you capture can affect playback
performance. Here are some suggestions for working with complex video images at high
resolution, multiple video layers, or multicamera material:
• For more effective playback of multiple streams of video at higher resolutions, stripe the
media drives. Some resolutions require drive striping; see the drive striping tables for your
Avid editing application at Avid’s online Knowledge Base. Go to
www.avid.com/onlinesupport and search for “Drive Striping Tables.”
• For more effective playback of multiple streams of video at higher resolutions without drive
striping, distribute the video tracks as evenly as possible among available drives, and target
separate drives for audio and video.
• Try to target one volume per reel.