2 SSDs or 1 NVMe?

[Chris Wright]

above and beyond the 45GB/hour 100mbps h.264 drone footage, for smooth editing you will also need a proxy format.

you can expect high quality cineform to be anywhere from 40GB/hour-300GB/hour depending on quality and resolution. or you can go the really small low quality proxy route with DNxHR LB at only 14GB/hour.

so add the two together 45+(40-300) or 45+14 is 1.4 – 8 hour’s worth. not including the media cache which can get almost as big, so divide your final numbers in half if you don’t have a separate drive for cache, so .7 – 4 hour’s worth.
not including extra sfx, music, effects etc another 20% or so down to .28-1.6 hour’s worth.

if you shoot one day a month, its enough. then transfer to a slow platter for archiving and delete your media cache per project.

[Carlen Cyphers]

So my last trip to Maui I transcoded to Cineform YUV 10 bit…a little over 300+ clips. It was 687GB! Holy cow…I’m either going to have to not take so much footage or upgrade my storage big time.

[Chris Wright]

you could save money if you keep your original footage on a cheap platter and your proxy transcoded cineform on a SSD. it would only be slow if you turned off your proxies. and again, a platter won’t slow down an export; just a thought.

[Carlen Cyphers]

Sorry – what do you mean by cheap platter?

Thing is I hear that color correction shouldn’t be done on the proxy files so I would almost rather work with full transcoded Cineform files rather than proxies.

At this point my thought is to add a 1TB 860 EVO SSD and a 6TB Seagate Barracuda HD. Later I will add a 1TB 960 EVO M.2.

[Chris Wright]

a cheap platter like a wd blue. if you select a high quality cineform for a proxy, it can act like a full offline version good enough for grading, i.e. level 4 or 5.

[Carlen Cyphers]

Ahh alright gotcha.