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Message: <blockquote data-quote="elconejito" data-source="post: 741920" data-attributes="member: 12592">I wouldn't say my process is the most efficient, but it works for me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I have my dedicated, always on media center/fileserver (specs in my sig) which records to a dedicated "recordings only" drive (the green drive mentioned above). Every couple of days I move the recordings I want to keep long-term over to one of the drives in my main desktop (overclocked Q9650 Core2Quad running at 4Ghz w/8GB RAM, a pair of RAID0 drives and another pair of WD Black 1TBs). I then use a program called VideoRedo (not free, I think 50 or 75 bucks - worth every penny) to scan for commercials, and then cut them out. It's frame accurate on MPG, and pretty gosh darn close on h264. I batch up all of the edited files to save to another drive (the copy is faster drive to drive rather than read/write from same drive). Then I resize/compress with handbrake (queue them up). Once they've been compressed I move them back on the media center/fileserver to a RAID5 drive there in an appropriate folder (TV, movie, music, etc).Copying the files over gigabit takes only a few mins per show. The commercial scan with VideoRedo takes only a few mins on mpg files, but can take up to 10-20mins on x264. Saving the edited files takes only a few minutes total (between a pair of WD Blacks averages over 100mb/s). The time to compress the files varies depending on the source (SD is fastest, 720p is slower, 1080i is slowest) and how many passes, quality settings, etc. I can look up the settings I use on handbrake if you like, I don't recall them off the top of my head. Each file takes maybe 30-45mins to resize/compress down to about 250mb for an hour long show. Note that VideoRedo can also compress to x264 (taking handbrake out of the equation) but I just feel more comfortable with Handbrake. Also note that I could do all of this on one machine (mediacenter), but it's easier for me working on my main desktop.I hop that may help, let me know if you want any other info....So far (knock on wood) I haven't had any troubles formatting with Windows 7. I think the 4KB issue was primarily with Windows XP (which a lot of people are still using) where you need to run the align tool. I don't think the HDD industry has done a good job of educating people on this subject as most people have never heard of it. I think most if not all newer drives, especially the larger drives, are using 4kb sectors now.</blockquote>

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