While BCC provides you with camera and sound equipment to use, you will need a hard drive to save your video footage from shoots.

Hard Drive Recommendations:

When choosing a hard drive for video editing, consider storage type, storage capacity, and transfer speed:

Storage type: Solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and more efficient than hard disk drives (HDDs)
Storage capacity: A minimum of 1 TB of storage is recommended for video editing projects.
Transfer speed: The SanDisk G-Drive PRO SSD is considered one of the best external hard drives for video editing based on transfer speed.

Recommended drives:

The Samsung T7 SSD is regarded as one of the best external hard drives for video editing.

The LaCie Rugged SSD Pro is a great option if you’re someone worried about damaging the external hard drive.

The Western Digital My Passport SSD is a great budget SSD that you can purchase.

The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is by far and away the most portable external SSD on this list due to its size and IP55 water and dust resistance.

The SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD v2 has the best overall performance of any external hard drive on this list, offering read and write speeds double the speed of any other devices on this list.

Editing Software

We will be using Adobe Creative Cloud's Premiere Pro editing software in a few editing labs and I encourage you to use this program to complete your midterm and final. All BCC Lab computers have a Creative Cloud and Premiere license on them.

If you have a fast computer at home that can process video files, I highly recommend a paid subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud for the semester, so you can edit your labs and midterm and final projects.

You can get a highly reduced subscription ($49.99 for one semester) on College Buys, if you sign up using your peralta email address

(This compared to about $59.99/month if you were an industry professional!)