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Best Drive setup for FCP?
Hey everyone. I’m using a PowerMac Dual G5 2.7Ghz with 4gb RAM and some more great gear. My question is in regards to organizing work over the hard drives.
There are 3 main hard drives – the 300gb boot drive (24fps), a second 300gb internal drive (HD1080p) and a huge (1TB) external FireWire 800 Lacie Drive (Terry).
My boss and I have been having problems with Real Time Rendering in FCP, where even a simple transition between 2 clips will require us to actually render the clip. I’ve used machines that have much worse specs, and real time rendering works for most things, especially stuff like transitions. We were both thinking that the issue could be tied to the fact that we’re working off of the external Terry drive.
Currently our drives are organized like this:
24fps – main boot drive, has applications etc., no FCP media
HD1080p – backup of 24fps and a backup of the project currently being worked on
Terry – main work drive, with captured media and project files, archives etc.Should we reorganize this structure? I was thinking we could do the following:
24fps – stay the same, boot drive with apps only
HD1080p – the projects currently being worked on, with captured media etc.
Terry – backup of 24fps plus archives of previous projectsThis may not be the best solution (especially for important backups), but will this help eliminate the problems with rendering we are having? What kind of drive setup would you recommend to us?
Thanks for your help!
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2 Replies
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I’m a little confused. Are the names ’24fps’, ‘HD1080p’ just names for the drives or does that have to do with the footage you’ve captured? If they are just names then you would do better to call them ‘drive 1, 2 and 3’ for clarity.
What codec is your footage and does your sequence match your footage?
pxlmvr
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They are just the names given to the drives. I should have just used Drive 1 etc. Sorry about the confusion.
The footage is just regular NTSC DV footage (mpg). It does match our sequence.
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