[Dave Gage]

[Kent Beeson] “Woah, the fusion drive is only 5400rpm?”

The Hybrid drive I mentioned in my last post is 7200rpm. I knew going in it likely wouldn’t be advantageous for editing, but for the price it was a good choice. Down the road when SSDs come down in price, I’ll move this Hybrid drive over as the boot drive and make the SSD the media drive.

Dave

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[Michael Hancock] “The Fusion drive is an SSD and a regular drive. The OS monitors what programs and files you use most and keeps the on the SSD, speeding up the opening of programs, the read/write response of said programs, and should give you a snappier, faster, more responsive machine.”

I don’t know if the Fusion drive is precisely the same as the Seagate Hybrid HDD (I assume so), but I have had excellent results with it in my Early 2011, i7 MBP 17″ with 16GB of RAM. Here’s the one I got-
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/834410-REG/Seagate_ST750LX003_750GB_Momentus_XT_Solid_State.html

I bought it specifically to be able to edit away from home and not have to drag my external 2-drive RAID with me. I removed the MBP Optical drive and then moved my boot drive to it’s spot and then put the Hybrid drive in the original boot drive slot to take advantage of the 6GBs connection.

It’s worked out so well for me that I don’t use the external RAID any more. Based on what Michael said, I don’t believe as an edit drive, it’s taking full advantage of the SSD portion, but it still benchmarks and feels fast (at least fast enough for what I do).
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Here’s some benchmarks:
(I used QuickBench 4.0, Large file test (2-10 MB), 5 cycle run, with the “Allow Cache Effects” box checked and 5ms set for the Read and Write Delays)

Seagate Hybrid 750GB in Voyager drive dock:
eSata: Write-92 MB/s, Read- 106 MB/s.

Seagate Hybrid 750GB internal MBP main slot- 6GB connection:
Write-273 MB/s, Read- 118 MB/s.
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Internal 750GB 5400 Drive (in original main drive slot):
Write- 57 MB/s, Read- 57 MB/s

Internal 750GB 5400 Drive (moved to optical drive slot 12/23/12 — I don’t know why this drive benchmarks faster and feels “snappier” in the new slot, but it does.):
Write-90 MB/s, Read- 90 MB/s.
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eSATA OWC Elite-AL Pro 2-Drive (1 TB) RAID 1:
eSATA 3GB: Write- 97 MB/s, Read- 99 MB/s.

Dave

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[Fabrizio D'Agnano] “Checking the proper box the clips retained the camera content creation date, and I could see no visible change in quality. No need to render. So far so good!”

Great to hear! I do try to avoid 3rd party solutions whenever possible as it becomes yet another thing that can break and will need an upgrade. But, when the solution is simple and time is important, it does make sense to spend the $50 or $100 and get to work. I say this because I did avoid spending the money on ClipWrap initially, but it’s paid for itself many times over now as a time saver. I feel the same way about ScreenFlow. Good examples of 3rd party quality software.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Fabrizio D'Agnano] “The wrong interpretation is with the Canon’s only.”

I went through the same thing about a year-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3654641?tstart=30
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3584352?tstart=90

I only shoot 30p now and use ClipWrap, and for me, problem solved.

Dave

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Craig,

Very cool! Do you have a post somewhere where you outline what your hardware specs and workflow is and you could put a link up here? If not and you have a few minutes, I’d like to hear about what you’re doing that appears to working so well.

Are you using a 27″ iMac as your main machine. What OS and version of FCPX are you on? Any tricks in your workflow to keep FCPX moving?

Thanks,
Dave

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[Steve Connor] “Thanks for sharing this, we’ve been looking for something like this for a while”

Steve,

As I said below in my response to Josh, I will move on this very soon. If you have any questions down the road about my personal experience with it, I will be happy to share.

Dave

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[Josh Mellicker] “Hello Dave, I am “the guy” Neil referred to 🙂 (we are an LA company with 7 people).”

Josh,

Thanks for jumping in here. As I research more and more (I’m careful because I’ve been burned a few times by web businesses), I find more and more people I know that know you personally and it’s all been very favorable.

I’ve been teaching in a music store in Santa Monica for over 30 years now with Fred Sokolow who does a lot of work with Stefan Grossman. I emailed Stefan yesterday and he got back this morning with nothin’ but good things to say. So, I’m in. I have a coupon code for a sale that’s good until 1/15/13, so I will take advantage before it expires.

I’ve been so busy these days shooting, editing, and posting (to my website’s Member Area) new 3-a-week live online classes via Adobe Connect that I haven’t had time for anything else. But, somehow I’m sure I can find the time to get the MOD Machine set up to make some additional revenue from these classes. Hopefully, this weekend I’ll get moving on it.

Thanks again,
Dave

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[Andy Neil] “It’s legit. I know the guy that made it. It’s a facilitator of content along with the player of that content. The idea is that, like iTunes, you can open the MOD machine and new content just shows up when it’s ready to be purchased.”

Good to hear. The more I looked into it, the more legit it was looking. I just couldn’t find anybody that I knew that could vouch for it. Have you used it or do you know anybody personally that has? I also wonder about their support. Their website only has email contact. Phone support is always helpful.

Thanks,
Dave

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[James Cude] “You can detach audio there- fix the offset and then you’ll be able to lay it down anywhere else you need from the Event.”

Cool tip. I will try that tomorrow. I’m not in the habit of working with a clip in the Event and then adding it to the Project, so I don’t think I would have come up with that. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow, but it sounds like I won’t need to even Compound it first, just close the Event Timeline and then drag to the Project.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Jason,

I had completely forgotten about this post, but I just happened across it.

I now have my 17″ MBP loaded up with 16GB ram and with the Seagate Momentus 7200rpm Hybrid drive as the Capture/Media. With the 6BG internal connection, it’s easily as fast or faster than my my 2-drive RAID in feel and benchmarks.

Here’s some benchmarks I did if you have an interest:
https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/15864-editing-h-264-video-natively?start=20#19430
and
https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/15934-experiences-benchmarks-using-hybrid-2-5-hdd-externally-and-internally#19305

Dave

I, like you, am loving it (he says in his pajamas while typing in bed and ready to begin another edit).

Thanks,
Dave