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Mac Pro Hardware Configuration
Posted by Gabriel Marn on November 23, 2010 at 7:57 pmHello,
I`m planing on buying a MacPro for video editing. Can someone please tell a good configuration for a buget of 6000$ ? I’m planning on editing Red footage.Thank you!
Gabriel Marn replied 15 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies -
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Chad Tingle
November 24, 2010 at 1:28 amTo edit red footage… that budget is not gonna get you very far.. the computer alone will cost that much. A good i/o card like a kona Lhi will run you 12-1500.. then you need a good raid….that will give you 250-300 mb/sec for good throughput.
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David Roth weiss
November 24, 2010 at 5:39 amIf you’re doing serious RED editing, i.e. 2K frames, you’ll need a Kona 3, which is even mire. The LHi is limited to 1920×1080 frames.
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David Roth weiss
November 24, 2010 at 10:04 amMy earlier post should have said, “Kona 3 is even more….”
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Gabriel Marn
November 27, 2010 at 8:22 pmThank you!
Will a 8-Core , 8 GB of Ram, 4TB of HDD, Kona 3 , Raid Card do the job?
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