Seperate audio files...

Hallo Everyone and Happy New Year!
Just after a spot of advice:
Is there any cost in performance if I capture to seperate video and audio files?
Are there any real watch-out points you'd like to share with me?
I'd like the flexibility in media management that working with split files would give me.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Jim

DV has a terrible time of playing back audio/video captures if they are separate files. If you're not working in DV, then it's OK... but I really don't think you gain enough to bother with it. The idea would be to be able to dump large video files, but keep all audio files (which are much smaller) in a large offline/online workflow. I abandoned this practice a long time ago when drives got less expensive, and the price of media storage wasn't as big an issue. But that's the only "gain" there is if you capture as separate files.
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