Spotlight a Stoplight for Video Pros

Looks like the Year of HD is getting some resistance from the major feature of Apple's new Tiger operating system: Spotlight. According to this HD for Indies blog post, both 10.4 and 10.4.1 are causing problems for video work, and a vast majority of these problems are caused by Spotlight's insistence upon indexing hard drives. As the post notes, "You can manually tell each drive to not be indexed, but that's EACH TIME you mount them or reboot. That's no good. Long strings of FireWire (or USB 2.0, or SATA, or any other external drive) are pretty much expected in video work, and expected to have hundreds of GB if not a number of terabytes of storage on them."

I wonder if adding the drives to the privacy pane in Spotlight's preferences will solve this problem. More on this over at MacInTouch, where one reader refers to Spotlight as Stoplight. Of course, you could always just turn Spotlight off.