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New Mac for HD editing
Hi,
I am looking at buying a new MAC Pro for editing HD footage shot on a Panasonic HVX200 and a Canon HDSLR. We have a limited budget.
I am looking at a 2.66Ghz quad core Intel Xeon, 8Gb Ram and 4TB internal storage. I have a AJA kona Lhe, will be upgrading to FCP studio 3 and Adobe Production CS5.
I sometimes shoot on greenscreen, but do not do many high end effects. (I would like to)
Most of the videos are made into .flvs and posted on the web.
Will this machine suffice?
Your opinions are greatly appreciated.
LauraLaura
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7 Replies
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Yes.
Shane
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[Laura Gruszczynski] “4TB internal storage”
Make sure the system drive is not RAID together with other internal drives. For your media drive I would recommend that you RAID 2 or 3 of the drives together.
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Can you be more specific? I am a RAID novice.
Thanks!Laura
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Laura;
A Raid is a process where you take multiple drives and combine them into 1 drive for one of several reasons.
I video it is done for read and write speed.
What Michael was saying is that if you have multiple drives in your tower (I think it can hold 4) then do not combine your main system drive with the other 3 drives to create a RAID.
Just take the other 3 drives and RAID them together or buy an external RAID like a G-RAID, LaCie or any of the many others out on the market.
Steve Cohen
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Although there is little need to raid the drives. Single internal SATA drives handle multiple streams of ProRes just fine. If you raid them, if you lose one, you lose all. If you leave them as single drives, you lose one, you only lose the information on that one.
Unless you do RAID 5, but that requires additional hardware.
Shane
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Got it!
Thanks!Laura
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[Shane Ross] “Single internal SATA drives handle multiple streams of ProRes just fine.”
Will FW800 handle multiple streams of ProRes (not HQ or 4444, just ProRes, LT or proxy)?
Apple’s ProRes white paper says that a Mac Pro with three-drive RAID 5 volume for media storage can handle about a dozen streams of ProRes while a 2009 MacBook Pro can handle 3 streams using a single (internal) 7200 RPM drive.
Just wondering what “real world experience” has shown.
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