Craig Ricker
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WOW! Having had no experience in purchasing LTO systems before, I have been waiting for LTO7 assuming it was going to be priced similarly to LTO 6 + a new technology overhead……. BUT 3-4x the price is astonishing! Its as if the only benefit they’ve brought is server room space.
Hmmm maybe if the drives aernt too out of control pricey, we can pick up 1 of those, and just use LTO6 for now, till the tape prices calm down
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What were your issues saving the cache files to the SAN?
We just got an editshare system installed, and to save having to rebuild media cache files, I was hoping to set the location to a volume all users have access to?
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BUMP
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Hi Chris,
Are you using 7 editors off a editshare field 2 at the one time? How much storage do you have in the field 2?
We mainly want the editshare software flow, ark etc. But wanted to do it on the cheap and run it off our own NAS, wasnt sure though if their NAS setup is vastly more advanced in terms of its design around editing.
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Our company has a Synology Rackstation RS3614xs, I was tempted to make a move from internal raid 10’s to everyone (3 mac pro edit suites) editing directly from the NAS in a raid 6 setup. Its currently using 8 bays on WD 6TB Red NAS drives.
Is it my understanding that most NAS systems will bottleneck on random access read/writes because a NAS isn’t optimised for such use? Or is it just some NAS systems, where they didn’t build the product with multiple editing video streams in mind?
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Can we get an update on what your outcome and solution choice was?
We have a Synology RackStation RS3614xs and currently loaded up with 8 x 6TB WD Red drives in Raid 6.
Currently we edit directly from raid 10 internally on each of our 3 Mac Pro’s, and just use the NAS for shared storage, final masters, nightly backups of the raid 10’s, shared dropbox, initial placement of new footage coming in from the field.
I have been looking into MAM systems and am pretty sold on a editshare solution, although was wondering if we couldn’t simply edit directly from the NAS, as we can use 10Gb ethernet from the NAS.
But if random access times are slow, then i’m thinking we’ll want to go with an entire storage solution with editshare xserve ST to avoid this.
Currently were only mucking around in compressed HD, but were moving to compressed 4k our mezzanine format will be 4k pro res LT. So 50MB/s file sizes.
Anyway an update on your synology NAS performance would be appreciated.
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Same boat here. Just upgraded, and RAM previews are gone, replaced with something called “Live Preview”. Its about 10 times slower. Just trying to playback 1 HD stream goes at like 2-3 frames a second……
The drop of the render preview as well, is a ridiculous idea, I used to like seeing what was rendering so I could see what was creating huge slow downs…
And everyone else says they never used it…. but brainstorm is gone, and I used to like using that feature with fractal noise, tritone and blurs, to see what might be a nice starting point for a background plate. Totally bummed that feature is gone too. I mean, why get rid of it…… that done all the hard work of writing it. Could of at least just moved it to a menu item, if they wanted to move it off the workspace….
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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BUMP – this is the exact question I have. Are people keeping the media cache on local hard drives or on the NAS?
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Why is everyone suggesting Pro Res 422? I’m curious.. looking at apples white paper on the pro res specs. Pro Res Proxy handles up to 151Mb/s at 4k, and as the GH4 isnt shooting over 100Mb/s why go higher?
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670
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Are you using prelude to rename clips on ingest onto your NAS or other media storage system. Then you have axle see the new footage, and you add metadata there?
How do you bring footage into say premiere after doing an axle search and finding a couple of clips you want to use in your edit?
Mac Pro 2.4Ghz 8 core, 24GB RAM, GTX 670