Formating an external for editing

I apologize if this question has been addressed before, but I thought this topic was simpler then it appears. I have a new 250 gig hard drive that is formated Fat 32. I will be using this drive for video files to edit from, as well as holding my iphoto and itunes files. I have an intel imac, if that makes a difference. I will not be sharing this with a windows computer. So the question is, what format do I choose? If the answer is OS extended, do I also want journaling?
Thanks for your help!

Journaling is recommended but it doesn't make any difference to the video performance. What I would suggest is that you do a zero erase to wipe the drive completely, not just a simple erase. This is important for drives that have been formatted in a DOS-based format. If you don't it's possible bad sectors will be created on a disc degrading performance.

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