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External Drive Sratch Disk vs OS Drive Scratch Disk
I have seen numerous times that it is beneficial to use an external drive as a scratch disk; I always just used the default setting as my scratch disk and it worked just fine for me. I decided when upgrading to FCS3 I would do things the right way as my projects are getting more complex… So I set up my external FW800 Drive to be the scratch disk, and even reassign my scratch disk folder for each project. This makes total sense for organization purposes; however, I am constantly getting dropped frames when things are not rendered. I know I can take unlimited RT off, but the sames un-rendered sequences that ran now drop frames and pause playback, this hampers my work-flow, is there a solution? It makes sense to me a 4 HD Raid 5 array would certainly be faster then a FW800 drive, should I just keep everything on my OS boot drive?
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Never ever use your boot drive for media. It’s a bad habit to get into (like eating play dough). Not to say that in a pinch you can’t use it.
Chances are that FW800 drive you have isn’t a particularly good one. Given that MacPro is using Sata drives internally, they can easily outrun the FW800 bus. What kind of codecs are you working in?
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DVCPro HD 720p
its a WD MyBook 1TB, I am guessing I need to get a PCI-E card and get eSata support on my Mac Pro?
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[Christopher Targia] “its a WD MyBook 1TB, I am guessing I need to get a PCI-E card and get eSata support on my Mac Pro?”
Probably the worst external drive you could have chosen. Those are ok for backing up data but I would never recommend anyone edit off of one.
Look at G-RAID units and offerings from Maxx Digital for proper external devices.
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Hi,
I’m having the same problem with playback on an external monitor connected via dvi.
All of my media is on a 2tb Gtech drive compressed using pro-res 422 (proxy) / 1920*1080/ 24fps and connected via fw800.
I have a brand new macbook Pro so sadly it doesn’t have a pci port so although my ext drive is sata i can’t connect it faster then fw800.
3.06GHz Intel core 2 duo / 8GB DDR3 ram
I would have thought the macbook pro would have been fast enough to handle this setup. Do you think this is a hardware problem or setup?
Many thanks
Henry
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