Alan Peil
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“Can you please expand on what you mean by optimal performance. Ime not trying to edit RED RAW! Are you saying it is impossible to edit DSLR footage using an internal laptop drive.”
Well, you can edit it, but you’re not going to get smooth playback without rendering.
So, you are NOT using an external FW drive? Still waiting on that screen shot from Disk Speed Test. 🙂
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14 read/10 write?? That has just got to be wrong – I know firewire is slow, but geez….if you can, post a screenshot from Disk Speed Test.
You want to be around 240-300 for optimal performance. You need an internal RAID 0 setup with 2 or more 7200 RPM drives to get there.
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Wait a sec – are you using an external firewire drive for your media?? If so, THAT is a problem.
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You do realize that just because it has a yellow bar this doesn’t mean it will play back in realtime, it only means it MAY play back in realtime. You may have to render some of those yellow bars (and red if you have them) to get smooth playback.
How much RAM is PPro using? Check out your Windows Resource Monitor while playing in PPro and let me know if your RAM usage just keeps climbing and climbing. Or, does it hit a certain level and stay there?
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Ken,
Are you using a Blackmagic card? If so, get the latest drivers, it will fix your problems.
Bjorn,
Your mem leak was NOT fixed by Mountain Lion, it was the updated BM drivers, guaranteed. 🙂
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Also, you didn’t say, but are you using Mercury Playback hardware or software?
With the Blackmagic disc speed utility, what kind of read/write speeds are you getting on your media drive?
Where do you have your PPro media cache files? These should be on your fastest/largest drive, but NOT the same drive your operating system is on.
It sounds to me like you have a memory leak somewhere though, and the BM drivers would be the obvious culprit.
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Thanks guys. I figured out my problem – the HDDs were NOT set up as a RAID in bios – they were set up as a spanned volume in Win7! Thanks IT guys!!
Anyway, I set them up properly in bios and copied all my files back over. This is three 1TB 7200RPM drives running in a RAID 0, approx 40% full. Does this look more like it, or could I still get more out of these drives?
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Well, since you haven’t installed the BM drivers, that is probably not your problem. But, to eliminate the chance I would either remove the card from the system or install the latest BM drivers.
All I can tell you is that I had a major memory leak issue with Blackmagic drivers 9.5.3 and 9.6.0, 9.6.1 has fixed the issue.
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Are you using a Blackmagic card by any chance?
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This is a 3 disc Raid 0 setup, and the drives are not empty. Should I still expect 240-300?
