Drive requirements for post-production

…Let's talk a little bit about hard drives for a moment.…There's really two classes of hard drives.…Drives that you take into the field that are easy to back…up to, small and portable, and powerful drives you edit off of.…Well, for example here, I have a small USB 3 hard drive.…This particular one is from g-tech, there are lots…of folks out there that make small bus-powered drives.…What I have here, is it's connected with a USB 3 cable, which is very fast.…Not quite as fast as Thunderbolt, but still pretty fast.…

This is the type of drive that I would bring…out into the field in order to back up to.…High capacity, lots of storage room, and I could easily fit a lot of material on it.…But, it might not be ready to edit to.…Let me transfer some files to it and show you a couple of issues with Drives.…Let's start with bringing up a new Finder window.…I'll select my mobile drive and press Cmd+I for get info.…The process is very similar on a Windows machine, just…right click and chose something like Get Info or Properties.…