Pro Res online speed

[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “I don’t like to render all the time either, but with large stills, I often have to.”

The good folks at Apple explained to me in an interview that RT performance of stills is directly related to the amount of available system RAM. If you drop stills one at time onto an empty timeline, you see that the first few require no rendering, the next few turn the render bar green, and then when avail;able RAM hits zero, you hit RT wall, and the render bars goes red.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Phil Hawes]

Thank you for all your advice.
Sorry that I am jumping back into this thread so late.

Yes, the regular Pro Res 422 will be fine and save space!
The best video source is HDCAM (not SR) and all the film transfers are SD Uncompressed for one reason or another.

Also, I will not be making “multi-generational” copies as they say in the Pro Res white paper so there is no real need for HQ.

Believe me, if I had a more robust RAID I would use it!

Phil