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Rendering Throughput
Hi,
Wondering what would be the best drive set up for price / performance for AE. Are sustained high bandwidth drive speeds and throughputs necessary and effective for AE renders? e.g. the Lacie S2S can do burst transfer rates of up to 187 mb/s but we’re not playing back video. Are we better off with good old fashioned firewire 800 drives. We’re also possible looking at gigabit raid / networked storage solutions. Any advice appreciated.
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If you’re not dealing with lots of video files then super-fast storage isn’t a neccessity, but will still be a help and will future-proof you if you do start using footage in AE. If you need to play your renders out to an NLE via a capture card then you’ll still need at least a 2 x drive RAID onboard so you don’t drop frames on output/input. I just use 2xWD 300GB 7,200rpm drives in RAID-0 in my tower for uncompressed SD video and it works a treat with my Decklink card, for playout/capture via Premiere.
If you’re working HD you will no doubt need more drives and faster ones at that. Firewire however MAY cut it for jpeg compressed and DV type SD work though.
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thanks…any other views?
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any other views?
Drive speed is simply not an appreciable factor in rendering in the current rev of After Effects if you do not have hardware supported codecs.
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drive speed may make a difference in your render times. Check out the totalae benchmark that you should be able to fine with a google search. half of the project was processor intensive, the other half was write to drives intensive. I’d go for the fastest you can afford.
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jimmybee was pretty spot on.
if you dont deal too much in comps that have multiple video files, then the speed was be as important.
if you need to read in several layers of footage for each frame render (especially if those are HD) then drive speed will matter. multiply than by the amount of cpu’s you have ( if you are rendering with nucleo or plan to use AE CS3) and you can see where this is going
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