New Mac Pro for After Effects…

[James Huenergardt]

Hey Walter,

Thanks so much for the info.

I do a lot of After Effects work and am getting into Cinema 4D. I’m preferring C4D over Lightwave for motion graphics work, especially with Cineware.

[Walter Soyka] I use MacDrive on my PCs, and I use Tuxera NTFS on my Macs. This way, I don’t have to care what kind of drive I’m plugging into what computer — any computer in my little shop can read any disk that comes through the door.

Do you just use these as a copy mechanism, or do you actually edit off these?

I do more than just motion graphics. I do some multi-camera editing in CC as well as some promo/docu editing as well.

I work off of bare drives and use drive docks as I’m on the road a bit and work off my MBP.

I use a Thunderbolt drive dock from Seagate for my bare drive and use an SSD via Thunderbolt for my RAM cache.

When I get back to my office, I put the bare drive and the SSD in my eSata dock and work off them.

I’d just hate to have to purchase all my plug-ins again for Windows. That could add a lot.

Performance wise, I hear that a stripped down Windows Server machine can blow away the Mac. And there’s more flexibility to configure and choose.

Difficult decisions for sure.

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[Walter Soyka]

[James Huenergardt] “Do you just use these as a copy mechanism, or do you actually edit off these? I do more than just motion graphics. I do some multi-camera editing in CC as well as some promo/docu editing as well.”

I generally just copy onto my RAID, and unfortunately I don’t have an eSATA card installed in my PC to give you a meaningful speed test.

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