How to configure RAID 5 system using SAS controller for APP CS4

[Pushpanatha De silva]

Thx Bob for ur advice…will contact them during 0 and 4pm today…..this machine is owned by me…It’s not working since they have delivered mainly due to configuration problems in factory. It has 3 SAS drives 600GB each connected via SAS controller on RAID 5 system. When u c the drives it shows as one big drive around 1.08 TB. Dell sales guy in Bangalore has agreed to send a another SAS drive of 600GB to connect and c whether there is any improvement.
The present problem is when u drag all ur clips (at once) to time line, the clips after 10minutes will freeze on time line and it won’t play those clip on monitor when select play on project monitor. Then whole prog will freeze and that’s the end of the story..I cannot operate/select anything beyond that…I am not a expert in RAID sys and this is my first time using RAID..Appreciate ur advice…Thx.

[Bob Dix]

I do not believe this is a Raid Configuration issue, if you are trying to edit more than 4GB high definition video on the timeline on a CS4 32 bit piece of software it may freeze(as I believe the Microsoft limitation is 4GB, try working or say 5 x 5 second clips at a time and render, you must render if you are processing H.264 mov or AVCHD clips 1920 x 1080. You may be advised to change the codec using the Adobe Media Encoder to a more manageable codec like Cineform or Microsoft AVI. These are not highly compressed and you will manage editing on the timeline and it will not freeze.

We still use Premiere Pro 1.5.1 which is 5 years older than CS4 and there are no issues> Projects Exported to Pro Tape or Movie or Blu-Ray are broadcast quality.May you have success #############

Ps. I only have a Raid 0 on two 600GB drives as per CS5 Requirements, it may not be enough but, it works. What codec is your videocamera working in ?

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA

[Pushpanatha De silva]

Thx Bob for ur further advice….without all u guy’s advice I may not be able to do a thing using my own brain…Thx again for all the forum experts who are supporting a dumb guy like me…Will give that a go.

[Bob Dix]

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/

Check CS5 Premiere Pro System requirements from above link.Our Dell system is T5500 2.27 GHz XEON Quad Core Workstation 64 bit ,yours is slightly more powerfull and it may have hyper-threading which will be better.But, as I said before it is the limitation of 4GB Microsoft Limitation with a 32 bit CS4, CS5 is 64 bit and should work better on your set up. There are a lot of free tutorials in ADOBE TV Forum which will help you running Premiere Pro.

Dell can check out your system by logging on to your computer to check it out if you have ADSL ?
https://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/ CHECK THIS OUT / https://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to

https://tv.adobe.com/product/premiere-pro/ Paste this link into your browzer for Premiere Pro

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA