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endless HDV indexing
Projects with HDV, which are most projects, want to index the files every time you open the project. Even if no drive letter have changed, it re-indexes. Not every time you open the project, but obviously when it does it is a time waster.
What is the verdict – keep the media cache in c:/whatever adobe wants to do, or keep everything with the source files?
Does having all your projects on a large capacity RAID help with the re-indexing problem?
Mike Cohen
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3 Replies
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RAID speeds everything up. But I do have to ask, why are you sticking with HDV? If you have enough dough to afford an array, transcoding to some other codec is a good idea, especially if it’s a codec that is native to what Premiere Pro wants.
And if you can get serial digital out and use an AJA or Blackmagic Design capture system, you lose long-GOP issues and edit in a codec that is native to your I/O card (which will speed up renders).
I have my renders on one drive and my media on another and I’m using the DV (NTSC) codec. I never have indexing issues and I am using a really old version of Premiere Pro (1.5).
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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The reason for my inquiry is to see if there is a cost to benefit ratio of upgrading to a RAID. The question is not “can you afford it” rather “can you afford not to.”
Thanks
Mike
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If you are editing in high definition, you should be using a RAID. Frankly, for SD, I’ve always used a RAID array for media up until switching to Adobe Premiere.
I’ve edited using Final Cut Pro, Avid DS and Avid Media Composer. All three systems used arrays as a matter of course because it was assumed that one could not play back uncompressed NTSC (or PAL) without one. The Avid systems all used 10k or 15k RPM drives in a SCSI RAID array (or a server).
There are lots of people here in this group that are assuming that a single drive (and in many cases their boot drive) that runs at 7,200 RPM is just fine for video editing. While video compression has vastly improved since the early 1990s (when you edited on an early Avid at such low resolution that you could not tell whether or not your focus was properly pulled), a single, unstriped drive just barely keeps up with the demand of multiple streams of video.
With today’s compression standards and modern hard drives with large caches, you can get away with a lot. But dropped frames on playback become a larger and larger risk as you tax the ability of a single hard drive to keep up with a complex sequence.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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