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Advice for rock solid install of Final Cut Studio on my system
Hello experts,
I’m sorry if this has been covered ad nauseum, but I’m about to install Final Cut Studio for the first time and I want to make sure I get it right. I couldn’t really find the answer to my question in previous posts.
I have a brand new
27-inch iMac 2.93GHZ Quad-core i7
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
2TB internal serial drive
2TB external RAID array by G-Tech
2TB external serial drive by G-TechI’m using the 256GB SSD as my startup disk.
The 2TB Internal Serial Drive is for extra media content, music and movies.
The 2TB External RAID array will be for Final Cut media (scratch files).
The 2TB External Serial Drive is my Time Machine backup.What I’ve managed to glean from info on the Internet and forums here is that Final Cut Studio should be installed on my startup disk and media/scratch files should go on the external RAID array.
What about the Final Cut Studio content discs? Should those go on the startup disc or a separate disc? And if anyone has any good advice for this install (other than the great article on this subject by Jerry Hoffman), please let me know.
Thanks. I look forward to many returns here at Creative Cow.
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other than the great article on this subject by Jerry Hoffman), please let me know.
Do you have a link to this article?
OSX 10.5.7; MAC Book PRO (EARLY 2008); Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30, Sony vx2000/PD170, Canon xl2; Pana, Sony, and Canon consumer cams; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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It really don’t matter where you put the content files, on a desktop that I have always mounted “other” disk I put the media on there.
My concern with your setup is how you have the external drives hooked up.
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Thanks. I’d appreciate any help. It’s not a pro setup, just starting out with Final Cut to cut some videos for the web. I’ve got the RAID on a FireWire 800; no eSATA on iMac. I’d be interested to know why you’re concerned.
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Ok thanks. Read that a while back; thought he might have an updated one.
check this out for a lot of details part 1-part 3 on install.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/reinstall_osx_fcs_part_1_saraceno.html
OSX 10.5.7; MAC Book PRO (EARLY 2008); Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30, Sony vx2000/PD170, Canon xl2; Pana, Sony, and Canon consumer cams; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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iMacs only have one FW channel, daisy chaining drives is not a good idea. I know a bunch of people do it and to a ridiculous level but sooner or later it leads to trouble and your chain is only as fast as the slowest drive on it.
For the backup Time Machine drive I would probably put that on a USB port.
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