Premiere Pro CC (Mac) and Canon 5d MK4

[Gary Huff]

[Mark Bowes] “OR should i bite the bullet and just transcode all the footage to Proress 422? on inport, “

ProRes is MotionJPEG, so that’s not really going to help. You didn’t say what format you recorded in (4K 23p? 30p? 60p?) We don’t know what GPU your “Mac Pro Dustbin” has (D300? D500? D700?) and are you sure you are RAID 0? You have a 4 drive striped array? That seems dangerous.

[Mark Bowes]

4k, 25fps i think its the Dual AMD FirePro D300

the storage is raid 0 we have a main and backup drive, using the LaCie 24TB 8big Thunderbolt 2 Rack Series which give us about 1330 MB/s Data Transfer Speeds a main and a clone just update the clone at the end of each edit day
not ideal but with our workload works ok,

until recently we shot on the Mk3 1080/25fps and it ran perfect,

if not Proress, what would be a good codec to transcode to ? any advice more than welcome 🙂

THanks
Mark

Mark Bowes

system
Premiere Pro CS5.5
Blackmagic Decklink Studio card
Sony HDV-M25AP VT
Sony DSR-45AP VT
Sony DSR-1500AP DVCAM
Sony J30 VT
Sony HDV-Z1E Camera
I7 Desktop with twin Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards
16gb Ram
8tb storage

and a very old Panasonic Mii (just incase :))

[Gary Huff]

[Mark Bowes] “until recently we shot on the Mk3 1080/25fps and it ran perfect, “

Well, of course. It’s 1080, not 4K. That’s not at all an apt comparison.

[Mark Bowes] “4k, 25fps i think its the Dual AMD FirePro D300 “

Decoding 4K will take a lot of power, and you opted for the lowest end GPU.

[Mark Bowes] “if not Proress, what would be a good codec to transcode to ? any advice more than welcome 🙂
“

You should make proxies and edit with an offline/online workflow.