new Mac Pro and 4K editing?

Tero Ahlfors
March 3, 2014 at 5:47 pm

R3D (and other compressed 4K) footage should be cool with a beefy processor. Uncompressed 4K (for example DPX, DNG, TIFF image sequences) needs some hardcore read performance speeds of 1-2 GB/s depending on the frame size.
Ericbowen
March 3, 2014 at 6:37 pm

A raid 0 on the TB would be enough to handle Red media and a Raw layer or 2. Beyond that you are looking at the 4bay units or better depending on the codec and layers.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com
Kent Beeson
March 4, 2014 at 10:23 pm

Thanks for replies – does anyone know of really good external hard drives that use TB2 already, not raid?
Ericbowen
March 4, 2014 at 11:00 pm

https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10600

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com
Kent Beeson
March 4, 2014 at 11:05 pm

Nice but it says TB1 not thunderbolt 2…is there a TB2 yet from anyone?
Ericbowen
March 6, 2014 at 5:31 pm

TB 2 wont change the speed of that drive at all. It takes more than 4 bay units to do that. You just need to make sure you don’t put any TB2 devices on the same chain.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

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