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New FCP set up
Dearest Gurus…
I’ve recently bought an iMac i7 27″.
I could use some advice on the best set up before I move a project over to this machine.I have a 1Tb internal which I’m keeping just for apps and the OS. FCP will be on here.
I will be editing a project in Pro Res. I have USB drives for daily back up.I have a GTech Raid 0 1Tb drive and also a GTech Raid 0 2Tb drive.
The 1Tb is connected to the iMac via FW800, with the 2Tb drive daisy chained to the 1Tb via FW800.I have scoured the forums looking for set up advice but have found none that help. Sorry if I missed any useful posts regarding this but I could do with some pointers.
I read somewhere (but couldn’t find the post) that media should be kept on one drive and another drive should be used for scratch. I thought I’d transfer via media manager all my media (video and pics) to the 2Tb and then use the 1Tb for scratch files (rendering, cache files, etc). Should I set ‘Capture scratch’ to the 2Tb media drive though? As all my other video files will be on there and presumably the 1Tb scratch disc will benefit from as much free space as possible.
Is this a good set up or can anyone suggest/point me to a better set up before I embark on this project?
Any help will be HUGELY appreciated!
ADC
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2 Replies
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Make your life easier and put all media/ renders/capture/ waveforms/cache that Fcp creates on one drive. Splitting stuff around daisy chained fw drives won’t gain you anything, in fact, it will probably slow you down.
Projects and OS stuff on the boot drive.
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Hi Andrew,
In this case is not much important in which external HD are you putting the stuff.
You have ONLY ONE FW bus, which resources are shared by both HDs.
That is your bottleneck.
No advantage in putting the media/scratch in two HDs instead of one.
if you’d have two FW buses would be different.
I think I would avoid that daisy chain and work with just one HD.
rafael
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