• Apple Final Cut Pro

  FCPX Media storage… Complete noob

  Posted by J. hunter Allred on September 30, 2011 at 11:43 am

  Ok, I am completely new to FCP, video editing, etc (but not computers. Highly competent there). Apologize if any video related terminology is wrong. My setup and what I hope to accomplish is as follows:

  MBP with:
  120GB OWC SSD as the OS boot drive capable of ~500MB read/writes
  1TB HDD in the optical bay that’s much slower
  8GB RAM, 1GB graphics card, 4 core 2.3ghz CPU
  About 250GB of AVCHD 1080p recordings growing rapidly
  Jumbo frame support on the NIC

  Linux iSCSI Server with ~12TB of usable RAID 6 storage, 8 cores, 16GB RAM.
  I have tested timemachine over iSCSI and it works great. I understand FCP can make proxy media I can work with on te road, and do the final rendering with the full resolution media. I want my main media store to reside on the highly robust and essentialu unlimited capacity Linux disk array, but be able to work on files while detached from that LAN. In a perfect world, it would be nice to be able to leverage some of the horsepower of the Linux box when rendering (hacintosh VM with compressor?). Finally, when analyzing/transcoding video, my MBP seems to run at about ~280% CPU load running primarily on 4 of the 8 logical processors, minor RAM usage, and trivial GPU RAM usage… Thought FCPX used GPGPU? Any way to just tell FCPX to just crush all 8 logical processors?

  What is the best way to accomplish this and maximize the assets available to me? Thanks

  J. hunter Allred replied 14 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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