[David Busse]

Thanks David. I’ll see about changing the RAID to one that is better for video.

[David Busse]

When you say Sequence master audio are you referring to the settings in “Sequence – Sequence Settings…”?

I’m exporting to ProRes Proxy. Any other suggestions for good proxy formats?

Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out.

[David Busse]

Hey David, thanks for the response…I missed your revision originally.

I did some more experimenting and I ended up needing to create proxies for my 4k footage. Even when working off a RAID 5 that was connected through USB 3 my computer couldn’t handle the 4k footage.

Specs:
FreeNAS 9.3 Stable
Xeon E3-1231V3 3.4GHz
16GB DDR3
4x4TB Disks + 1 Spare
Configuration equivalent to RAID 1+0 (mirror first, stripe second)
ZFS format + LZ4 compression
Dual 1GB ethernet links, bound together with LACP
Users: 1-3, but problems occur with even 1 user

[David Busse]

Thanks David,
Fortunately for me, we just finished constructing a RAID 10 server and are troubleshooting it right now so we will be off of single drives soon. I also ran a quick test using the server and the playback was definitely better.

In the mean time I also discovered that while working with this project Premiere was using 600-750% of my CPU. I am experimenting now to see if proxy files will help reduce that load on my computer.

[David Busse]

Pat,
I am opening these files from the same user account on my RAID as I was using for my external hard drive so user permission should not be an issue. However, I did check user permissions and made sure that every category of users on my computer had read and write access and the same thing still happened.
Thanks
David

[David Busse]

Hey Randy, I have actually attended a few of those, including the last one at Logan Productions. I guess what I am nervous about when I am there is if I say that I am a recent graduate people will be turned off because they will just see me as begging for a job. Do you have any advice on how to approach people? Last time I just tried talking to everybody and not asking for work, but I need to strike at some point.
Thanks for the reply
David

[David Busse]

Thanks for the reply. This will be very helpful.
-David

[David Busse]

Thanks for the reply. For whatever reason I thought that the G5 held more than two drives, but looking at it last night proved otherwise. I think I may just go with your idea of buying a case for the internal drive and using it as an external drive. That won’t cost too much and I may actually end up saving money in energy costs in the long run.
-David

[David Busse]

Thanks for your reply, I’ll keep these things in mind.

[David Busse]

Thanks for your reply. I know that I need to start on the bottom so I’m not expecting any really good positions soon, but thanks for the reminder.