[David Payne]

I tried 2 different 2015 iMacs and a top spec Mac Pro and neither could handle 4k.

I am back on my PC which handles it more (despite costing a third of the mac pro) however when I have a lot of 4k to edit, as others have suggested, I proxy all the way to the bank.

[David Payne]

THANK YOU CHRIS.

Worked a charm!

[David Payne]

I’m having to do this every time I open Premiere. Does anyone know if this setting should save?!

[David Payne]

bit of an update/ a few questions if you guys would be so kind.

I have now bought the iMac 5k with 500gb SSD and I’m sorting out my other drives now.

have just purchased a thunderbolt 2 enclosure to use 2x 840 evo ssd’s in RAID0 and that will be my video drive. I think the max speeds of those drives will be around 500MBps read and write.

With that in mind do you guys think its worth it to utilise an existing super fast (2200MBps read and write) pci-e drive in a thunderbolt 2 enclosure as a cache drive? (or a similar speed m.2 drive I have – but finding thunderbolt 2 m.2 enclosures is proving impossible)

What I’m unsure of is whether premiere will be reading both video and cache drive simultaneously as if so then the 20GBPS max of the Thunderbolt bus will be split between these two drives and I dont want them to slow down.

With that in mind, if the video drive just has a couple of medium speed SSD’s in them then I assume there will be plenty of headroom left for the cache drive so in theory they shouldn’t slow eachother down?

Would love to hear your thoughts..

[David Payne]

anyone?

[David Payne]

I’ve read that the SSD’s in the iMacs aren’t as fast as the SSDs in the macbook pro’s as they’re pcie-ssd which is a bit of a shame.

I think the plan is to get the 256gb ssd for OS and software, then try to find a thunderbolt caddy for my existing 800gb pcie-ssd I have and use that to store my video. Then maybe another caddy for my 256gb m.2 drive for cache.

Both of those drives read around 900 and write around 1800 in my tests so seems a shame to waste them

[David Payne]

Can you recommend a particular one? Does this connect with USB? Would speakers connect directly to it or do I then have to optical out to my existing surround sound kit?

[David Payne]

Thanks Jud. I wonder if I can speak to Apple or Adobe to get the definitive answer on best hard drive config..

Don’t want to pay loads for a huge ssd if I find its best to put only software on it..

[David Payne]

Thanks Jud.so the best of everything then haha.

OK 395x it is. Now.. Can I afford a 1tb ssd!

So would the edit be quickest if I had OS, video and cache all on the 1tb ssd

or

if I had OS and cache in the ssd (I could go 256gb)and video on a thunderbolt 2 connected raid array

What benefit would you say the better gpu would give? Just in exporting or in editing too?

[David Payne]

Just starting to edit 4k from the a7sii so would need to handle that well!