After Effects and Premiere

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Nothing beats an internal SSD for Premiere and AE, except maybe a ioFX card. You can use an external Thunderbolt drive but I would invest first in an internal SSD.

As far as workflow advice- can you be more specific? There are a lot of aspects of workflow – for basics I recommend checking out the Adobe site.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Gavin Williams]

Thanks the response

My workflow is basically editing in premiere and grading and effects in AE. I do 3 to 4 music films a week that are around 5mins long. All fairly basic

So workflow wise can instore everything in one place – caches and footage from both apps?

[Walter Soyka]

I assume this is a follow-up to your previous thread, right?

Basically, my advice to you is that performance will scale with budget. Buying a single Thunderbolt hard drive will perform better than the Firewire 800 hard drive you have now, but not as well as a Thunderbolt RAID.

Yes, you can store your caches and footage on the same drive — but you want that drive to be as fast as you can afford.

Walter Soyka
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[Gavin Williams]

Oh great – thank Walter

Your time and advice is much appreciated!

Thanks again

Gavin