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Mercury Accelsior for Premiere
I have the Mac Pro 4,1 and Just ordered the Accelsior 480. I was thinking that the Accelsior would be my “RAID” I’m new to Premier (FCP User) but I think Premiere’s Mercury system “Conforms” the original media. (In my case XDCamEX) so no more need to “log and transfer:
So to get the performance (while minimizing memory space) could I keep the EX media source on regular HDDs and tell premiere to send the Preview and Renders to the Accelsior thus achieving greater performance? Or do I need to keep the media files on the Accelsior as well?
Is Premiere accessing those EX source files once it has been brought in and conformed?
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4 Replies
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Premiere does not conform your video to any format, it does however conform possible audio to float. You can use the native media in Premiere.
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Hey thanks for the reply, I just noticed that when I import my shots into a Premiere project there is definitely something happening (a process occurs) where in FCP the link is more “direct”. (Of course in FCP I have to perform a “Log & Transfer”) So with the limited size of the Accelsior I will need pull the projects off once completed.
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Good Day Michael,
I just made the purchase of the same size of Mercury Accelsior, the 480 Gb.
Like you, I have also chosen to use Premiere CS5, Currently waiting for my Accelsior to arrive in the next day or so; and looking to speed up any ‘learning curve.
Wanting to use it as my Boot, Application, and Project Drive. Any pointers or suggestions; Wisdom you have to share?
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I’m looking at getting one of these too in order to speed up my mac. It’s already maxed on a RAM and I have 1 available PCI slot. Does anybody know if this drive would be of better use as an OS/APP drive? Or as a scratch/render drive?
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