Got excited need some help.

[James Sharp]

If you have alot of ram and cpu power you can easily just edit with the .d2v that dgindex made for you instead of making clips. You just need the AVS plugin for premiere, supposedly there is one for AE now but its kinda moot cause most people make their clips in premiere anyway.

would 2 gigs be good enough?

That sounds alot better than making select clips... only problem i can see is space.. how much do you figure a 25 or so dvd rips takes up.. space wise.. with the method that you just suggested.

[EvaFan]

I just use a 2.3ghz AMD cpu and 2gig ram. It runs smoothly for a laptop, of course it's not realtime playback in premiere unless I take out the extra functions on my avisynth script. If the only thing you have on your script is the basic stuff like resize (assuming the resize isn't huge), cropping, deinterlacing, saturation (and any other color changes) the playback on premiere should be smooth enough to deal with. If you start adding all kinds of other functions to clean the source it will lower the FPS to a point that editing/scrubing becomes tough. Best thing to do is to add those just before encoding.

[EvaFan]

how much do you figure a 25 or so dvd rips takes up.. space wise.. with the method that you just suggested.

I can't tell if this is being serious or not but seriously... Just rip a dvd then x25?

[ExSphere]

only problem i can see is space.. how much do you figure a 25 or so dvd rips takes up.. space wise.. with the method that you just suggested.

It depends on the DVD, but the average DVD has about 3 - 4 episodes on it, and after you've turned it into a lossless will be about 20GB roughly. So your looking at 500GB. If your going to take this hobby seriously, you might want to get a 1TB external.

[Nya-chan Production]

Or get better RAM and mount files :<

[Otohiko]

how much do you figure a 25 or so dvd rips takes up.. space wise.. with the method that you just suggested.

I can't tell if this is being serious or not but seriously... Just rip a dvd then x25?

It's a fair question. Actually this thread reminds me a bit of the time I started editing and had all sorts of stuff to ask (like HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO EDIT) that would now seem silly to me to even think of. So let's not be cynical, people

Anyway, I'll answer that for you - it varies, it really depends on the actual content of the DVD, but you're looking at upwards of 7.5GB per DVD (often less). I'd set aside 200GB to be on the safe side.

[EvaFan]

You can avoid large data storage by just planning your amv out or segmenting it (edit some render that uncompressed then get more source to scrub through). If your using multiple animes you can edit with one anime for a bit then edit with another in the same fashion.

Or you could just do what you were trying to do earlier, Rip some dvd's then create clips from those dvd's then switch to different dvds. I had no idea you were using that many. The edit the AVS route is usually easier for just a single series. I don't even think the AVS would work properly with 25 dvd's worth of footage on a single avs load without crashing every now and then during the editing process.